Re: PROPOSAL for FHS revised : Mount points for CDs, floppies and alien OS partitions.]

["C. Cooke" <ccooke@highwayone.net>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Johannes Poehlmann wrote:

<snip>

> It is recommended (not required !) that /mounts is structured this way:
> 
> /mounts--+
> 	 +-cdrom0
> 	 +-cdrom1
> 	 +-cdrom...
>          |
>          +-cdburner0
>          +-cdburner1
>          +-cdburner..
>          |
>          +-dvd0
>          +-dvd1
>          +-dvd.....
>          |
> 	 +-floppy0
> 	 +-floppy1
> 	 +-floppy...
>          |
>          +-other removable media.....
>          |
>          +-dos-+
>          |     +--c
>          |     +--d
>          |     +--etc....
>          |
>          +--nt-+
>          |     +--c
>          |     +--d
>          |     +--etc....
>          |
>          +--other classes of alien partitions........
> 
> All theses items are optional especially for non existing drives/ partitions.

Hmm... It would seem logical that *permanent* mount points should be
segregated from *temporary* ones...

A physical hard disk can become a working part of the filesystem, in
essence a seamless part of the whole.

A removable drive, whatever the media, is of a different nature, and
exists at points where the file system intersects with the wider
world... iyswim.

I'd have thought real partitions are going to be rarely changed, and
fairly stable - say you dual boot with windows, you're likely to have a
set, stable place where the disk is linked, and it won't change.

Why can't something like:

/mount
  |
  +-local-+
  |       +--dos_c or whatever
  |       +--etc...
  |
  +-net-+
  |     +--remote sites - nfs, smb, etc
  | 
  +-removable-+
              +-floppy[0-n]
              +-cdrom[0-n]
              +-dvd[0-n]
              
and so on?

This way, actual *fixed* mount points get proper names, and floppy drives
are "visibly" external.

-- 
Charles Cooke, Network Engineer
HighwayOne Corporation Ltd.