From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 21:34:00 +0100 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix Message-ID: <20141127203400.GP7842@hermes> References: <54775097.30705@siemens.com> <20141127181823.GK7842@hermes> <547772AF.108@siemens.com> <20141127191438.GI24110@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141127191438.GI24110@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [pull] forge: Adjust default registry mount point List-Id: Discussions about the Xenomai project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Jan Kiszka , Xenomai On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 02:14:38PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 07:51:27PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > > On 2014-11-27 19:18, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > > > According to the filesystem hierarchy standard, /mnt is the standard > > > place for "temporarily mounted filesystems". > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard > > > > Right, another reason to NOT mess around with it: if something was > > temporarily mounted there, we will create the mountpoint inside that > > filesystem with unforeseeable side effects. > > I always read that as "temporarily mounted there by the admin or some > other human". Certainly not automatic mounts by software. There is a > reason /media and such exists on many distributins. I would not venture an "always", autofs for instance, used to mount things under /mnt. and /media has not always existed either, we used /mnt/cdrom. -- Gilles.