HAL on FreeBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:46 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 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.

HAL would be controlling them.

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

Yeah, this makes a lot of sense.  Getting people to agree on this might
be tough, though.  Probably something that should be done, then
apologize after the fact.

Joe

> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 
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