> Note that both SuSE and Tru64 use /sbin/init.d, as well... Red Hat is etc/rc.d/init.d (misreading the spec slightly) Debian I believe is /etc/init.d
> Are they perchance Redhat-specific, or specific to Redhat derivatives, > despite their titles? Just curious, since I haven't examined the most > recent crop of books. Random selection. I think its fair to assume they would be biased in the direction of perceived market volume. > > Mounts should be by _volume_name_ or handy label not by device. > > Hmmm, do we then have /mnt/null for unnamed/unlabeled media? > Fall back on the device type and/or name? Or what? "or handy label". > > Another common location for remote mounts is /export/machinename/... > > This is especially true of large, multi-user systems with lots > of NFS activity and/or a running automounter. Or > /wherever/share/mnt/machinename, or however a company's sysadmins have > decided to set it up. But as you mention, this is a remote-mount > issue. Shouldn't that be handled differently than local mounts? Why is that a consideration. On a SAN its not always clear what is local or remote and that can depend on 'configuration of the week' or even be changed by high level I/O balancing tools 8) I raised exports as a question if we should allow it too Alan
