On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Jon <jdisn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Fedora's recent tendency to override the published file system hierarchy >> specs, at whim, and replace them with symlinks is problematic, unnecessary, >> and is breaking things. In this case, /media is defined in the upstream >> specs as the location for removable media. Not /run/media. Not >> /whither/my/love/piñata/wanders/media. >> > > > Are you referring to the File System Hierarchy (FHS 2.3) spec [1], > published in 2004, or the FHS 3 (beta) spec from 2011 [2] ? > > Regardless, those specs (according to my reading) do not imperatively > [3] require a /media directory for removable media. It would appear > /media is preferable to legacy places like /mnt/cdrom, etc. They also > do not disallow for /run/media/$UID, only stipulating that these areas > be sensibly protected, which Fedora does.
I was referring to the older spec. The newer spec is more clear about the use of /media. Neither *mandate* following the spec, that's very difficult for any spec to do. The don't disallow replacing /etc/passwd with symlinks, either. But the recent tendency to ignore the FSH and history and pick a new location that may be "better" in some model of the universe, but which breaks working processes, is problematic. Also note that it's a pretty thorough violation of the more recent spec to use "/run" for mountable media. If it hadn't been explicitly specified, and it *was*, I'd have suggested using "/var/media". > Perhaps It would be nice to retain /media for situations where seated > users choose to mount media in an insecure (world accessible) way? It's the removable media under /media/cdrom, /media/usb1, etc. that would require more specific permissions. /var/run/media is no more or less secdure than "/media". in that sense. > [1] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html > [2] http://www.linuxbase.org/betaspecs/fhs/fhs.html > [3] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt RFC 2119 is from 1997. The world has evolved since then, and none of "/run", "/var/run", nor "/media are mentioned. I'm afraid stuffing into /var/ was unnecessary, and the bugzilla mentioned never gave a clear reason for the move. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
