[systemd-devel] /media as tmpfs

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] 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.

Do you think that your 802.11 capable camera should be mounted somewhere
else when accessed over wifi than when being accessed over USB?

As for /media not being admin terroritory, I don't see where you read
that in the FHS, and if it's not explicitly marked as temporary in the
FHS, it should not be made temporary by systemd, IMO.

Anyway, if udisks is moving away from using /media and systemd too, this
is slightly moot and we can just drop having a tmpfs for /media.

Regards,
-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
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