From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <547772AF.108@siemens.com> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:51:27 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <54775097.30705@siemens.com> <20141127181823.GK7842@hermes> In-Reply-To: <20141127181823.GK7842@hermes> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Gilles Chanteperdrix Cc: Xenomai 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 -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux