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

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

On 2014-11-27 21:34, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> 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.

FHS on /mnt purpose:

"This directory is provided so that the system administrator may
temporarily mount a filesystem as needed. The content of this directory
is a local issue and should not affect the manner in which any program
is run."

I think this makes it crystal clear that Xenomai is not supposed to
touch it.

Jan

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