Lenz Grimmer wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Martin Webster wrote:
The important thing here is that a decision to standardise has been made, which can only benefit developer and end-user alike.
That's perfectly reasonable -- but the FSH doesn't mention /media.
True, but that's the reason SuSE provides in their 7.2 Update manual. Version 2.2 of the FHS is dated May; didn't SuSE 7.2 come out June/July? I expect it will show in later versions.
Well, actually in was in there, but someone decided to pull it back out before releasing the final 2.2 version. Seems we were a bit too fast in implementing /media... But /cdrom and /floppy were not defined as well, so it does not really matter.
This is one of the FHS issues that come up and are being debated every once in a while and it seems like the FHS people will never actually define it. Unfortunately the FHS does not have a clear process for defining and voting for such things. They don't even have a list archive... But I should stop ranting.
That's very disappointing. Somehow I had more faith in the process that created and maintains the FHS. (My letter to the FHS editor has gone unanswered.) There's an obvious hole in the standard, since as it currently reads it provides *no* place to mount auxiliary devices. There's plenty of room for debate about the right mount point --- /media or the root --- but not much, I'd hope, about the need for some mount point. And then there's the other hole I noticed -- the statement that "nothing not listed can be placed in the root" is in the Rationale but not in the normative (operative) part. Paul