Re: [Xenomai] [pull] forge: Adjust default registry mount point

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2014-11-27 19:18, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 05:25:59PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> The following changes since commit c13ff82ac09f6daa94778dcd8b51902efd754f3d:
>>
>>   rtnet: update at91_ether driver (2014-11-16 20:06:04 +0100)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>   git://git.xenomai.org/xenomai-jki.git for-forge
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to d36ae28f9c0549c0af66e896711dde21ea769587:
>>
>>   regd: Switch to tmpfs as default (2014-11-27 17:19:33 +0100)
> 
> 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.

> 
> /run is a deviation to the standard, and does not seem to be
> indicated as a mount point (though debian mounts things there).

"Modern" distros do, according to that article, so I suppose the
majority. It's about to become standard.

> 
> The standard equivalent of /run would be /var/run.
> 
> But why do we need to change that globally, is not this configurable?

We must stop writing to potentially read-only and/or non-local
directories. If it's /run or /var/run, I don't care too much.

Jan

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