Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD

[Florent Thoumie]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:57 -0300, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:
> On 5/10/06, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > It's not backwards compatible if system administrators are already using
> > it as a mount point itself.  In that case we're trying to create mount
> > points within a mounted file system.  Plus, one of the big things
> > adding /media is will help is HAL support on FreeBSD.  If we picked
> > another name, this would mean additional FreeBSD-specific hacks on ports
> > that expect removable media mounts to exist under /media.
> 
> I don't have strong reasons to object against /media, I just think
> that this covers applications' errors assuming /media exists and
> contains removable media mount points.  Or, more specifically, HAL's
> assumption of /media, instead of accepting some configuration
> parameter telling where it should look for removable-media mount
> points.
> 
> Personally I'd mount removable media under /mnt (as I always did) and
> change HAL to accept configuration like this, specifying where it
> should look for instead of assuming /media.  Perhaps this affects less
> users.

/mnt is meant to be used as a mount point, /media will be a directory
containing mount points.

The main idea behind using /media is to reduce the porting efforts, read
Marcus' posts.

PS: This really is bikeshedding.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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