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 -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux _______________________________________________ Xenomai mailing list [email protected] http://www.xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai
