Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD

[Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez]

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.

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
GNU/Linux #140696 [http://counter.li.org]
Slackware Linux + FreeBSD