[systemd-devel] /media as tmpfs

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 27.03.12 16:53, Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen at err.no) wrote:

> ]] Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri 
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > why is /media a tmpfs?  I think that violates user expectations that
> > > /media will be persistent across reboots, in particular any directories
> > > created and such.
> > 
> > It is expected that /media will contain directories for mountpoints,
> > mostly created automatically based on media name.
> 
> That's not what the FHS says, though.  It just says it's for «removable
> media», which can be more or less anything those days, including network
> mounts which you use with automount.

Ahum, that's a very creative interpretation of "removable" media. I
think most people assume that removable media is generally stuff like
USB sticks, CDs/DVDs, and even floppies.

Lennart

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