On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:15:27AM +0100, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Just to add another argument. I just asked a friend who is a
> professional sysadmin. He creates directory under /mnt and mount
> things under these directories. So, I am not sure the standard is
> even applied by the people who should use it.

Well being the admin, the admin can mount whatever they want in there.
That agrees with the standard just fine.

> If you read on the last site I sent, under the /media article: 
> 
> Amid much controversy and consternation on the part of system and
> network administrators a directory containing mount points for
> removable media has now been created. Funnily enough, it has been
> named /media.

The /media is generally used by auto mounters for removable media.

> Are you sure, 100% sure, that every Xenomai user expects to be able
> to use /mnt as a mount point? Or that they will create directories
> under /mnt like everybody has been doing since Linux exists?

I do use /mnt and I do NOT create directories in it.  I know people that
do create directories.  The admin can do whatever they want in there.

-- 
Len Sorensen

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