Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD

[Garance A Drosehn]

At 11:16 PM -0400 5/9/06, m m wrote:
>
>  ... and in my opinion better name match to use /mnt/temp
>for "temporary mount" and /mnt/floppy and /mnt/disk and
>/mnt/VOLUME, etc for "other" mount points...

This would have worked FreeBSD had described /mnt in that
manner sometime long ago.  Right now that would be a major
disruptive change.  Just imagine what happens to all those
people (and ports!) which are using /mnt in the way it has
been documented for all these years.  They'll be mounting
and unmounting things at /mnt, and the system will be
auto-mounting and auto-unmounting things at /mnt/whatever.
Sounds like a nightmare to me.

I think /media is probably as good a name as we're going
to come up with.  If I understand this correctly, that is
the name which is used by HAL-ish things on some other
unixes (although not MacOS 10, but IMO that is okay.  As
a MacOS 10 user, I know it'd be pretty easy to for me to
create a symlink from /media -> /Volumes).

disclaimer: I haven't looked at the patch to say whether
*it* is correct, but the name for the directory seems OK.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =               drosehn at rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad at FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA