HAL on FreeBSD

[juho at kepa.fi]

Quoting Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net>:

> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
>
> > FreeBSD does have /mnt.  Subdirectories under there might be a good idea.
> > For example, /mnt/media/* or /mnt/hal/media/*.  I think this would be
> > easier to find that something buried multiple levels deep.
>
> Some thoughts:
> - /mnt/hal/ suggests (at least to those which know what it may be) that
>    there are mountpoints which are controled by something.
> - Do have /mnt/hal/media/* and /mnt/media/* to be that deep?
> - Some (a lot) docs refer to mounting someting to /mnt or /mnt2, using
>    /mnt/XXX would result in unwanted behavior if someone follows
>    those docs.

As far as I understand it, /mnt is a wrong place. As you say, it's intended for
temporary mounts by system administrator. Whatever you create there might or
might not exist in near future. Breaking something like this doesn't sound like
a good idea.

> - Does it hurt to add a new directory to the rootfs and to hier(7)
>    for the purpose of algorithm controled mounting?

I don't think it does, but who decides about something like this? Not me for
sure. It sounds like the best choice, but hm..? Well, it doesn't need to be
decided yet, as the it will still take some time before the hal port is ready.

Juho



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