Re: [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Philippe Gerum: copperplate: add configuration tunable for registry moint point

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 01:51:33PM +0100, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> And as I explained, the standard sucks. /mnt on the distro I use
> contains the following directories:
> 
> cdrecorder
> cdrom
> dvd
> floppy
> hd
> memory
> tmp
> zip                 
> 
> and it puts the following text in /mnt/README
> 
> The purpose of the /mnt directory is to provide a place for the admin to
> mount block device temporarily.  Any of the subdirectories of /mnt may be
> used, or volumes may even be mounted directly on /mnt (which is the
> traditional way of doing things, though /mnt/tmp is also provided for
> the purpose of mounting any kind of volume temporarily).
> 
> See the /media directory also.
> 
> IOW: it leaves the choice to the user. What Philippe does is exactly
> the same: let the user choose whether he want to use the non
> standard sotlution that does not suck and that use to be a standard
> practice in Linux world, or the standard solution that sucks.
> 
> I thought we agreed this was a sensible solution.

So your README file even says the traditional way is to mount on top
of /mnt, which again means /mnt/xenomai stops working if you do what it
says is traditional in the README on that system.  Good reason not to
rely on anything in /mnt

And a mount that is used by xenomai while running hardly qualifies as
temporary in the sense I believe /mnt was intended.

-- 
Len Sorensen