FreeBSD and FHS summary
Marc Wiz
marc at wiz.com
Tue Nov 25 12:28:52 PST 2003
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:11:28PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
>
> Before going back to the FHS list, I'd like to summarize what I think the
> opinions here were. Please correct me if I'm horribly off-base.
>
> The idea of defining a default directory to hold directories for recurring
> temporary mount points is considered to be a good one, though it's use should
> be optional. Putting these in / would be a bad idea, because it would clutter
> up the root directory. Putting these in /mnt would be a bad idea because lots
> of people expect that directory to be empty to be used for temporary ad hoc
> mount points. Also, the FHS shouldn't try to define all the names of these
> mount point directories.
>
> Putting this directory into /usr, /tmp, or any of the other well-defined
> top-level directories doesn't make any sense. But perhaps a directory in /var
> would be a good idea, but some people thought that it sounded wierd, and
> there were some technical [1] reasons [2] why it might be a bad idea.
>
> Some recommended top-level directories were:
>
> /fs, /tfs, /mounts, /volumes, /mnts
>
May I suggest /tmounts or /tmnts?
If people are concerned about lots of directories being created in
/'s file system then the top-level directory could itself be a file
system.
It would be nice if the name of the directory could be obtained via
sysconf (3).
Marc
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