Thorsten Kukuk wrote: >> No, the majority doesn't have cdrom in /mnt. Red Hat has it, and >> Red Hat has only the majority in USA. In Europe, it is SuSE Linux, >> in Asia TurboLinux.
Robert Hart writes: > I do not wish to have a market share discussion on this list but the > above is simply NOT borne out by any statistics available from > reputable sources. > > An argument based on this erroneous data should therefore not be used to > promote/demote any particular position in the LSB. I also do not wish to have a market share discussion. I can almost guarantee that technical arguments primarily based on market share will be ignored or discounted. Please drop it right here. Addressing the technical issue at hand, /mnt has been specified as a single mount point for temporary use since the original FSSTND 1.0 released on February 14, 1994 (and it was used that way on every distribution predating FSSTND). A single /mnt mount point has been the standard practice on most Unix systems for longer than Linux has been around. Multiple directories under /mnt also conflicts with the standard system administration practice of mounting on /mnt -- directories under /mnt are made inaccessible to all users when a someone mounts something on /mnt as root. It's simply a bad idea to put user mounts under /mnt because they are likely to break. For all of the above technical reasons, I do not support changing FHS to specify any hierarchical structure under /mnt (optional or otherwise). However, it does seem that we could benefit from having a subdirectory off of / or /var for temporary mount points, even if the structure therein is loosely defined. There are several proposals over on the FHS list (the correct list for this entire discussion, BTW) for how to name and structure the new directory, something should be finalized for the next revision of FHS. Dan
