Re: PROPOSAL for FHS revised : Mount points for CDs, floppies and alien OS partitions.]
Circa 2000-Jun-22 10:15:58 +0200 schrieb Thorsten Kukuk:
: 1. /cdrom is also already accepted practice by a large number of
: Linux systems, many of the distributions are much older then RedHat
: and co.
As others have pointed out, age of a distribution does not necessarily
equate to installed base. If that were true, we should be looking at
existing practice from Software Landing Systems and Yggdrasil
Linux distributions, as well as (if your premise in [2] is correct) at
Ultrix, SunOS 4.x, and DG/UX.
: 2. We don't speak about Linux, we speak about an FHS proposal. (Look
: at the subject.
: FHS is for all Unix systems, not only Linux. And the /use of /mnt
: as a temporary mount point is more widespeard as the practice of
: /mnt/{floppy,cdrom}. Speak with one who uses Solaris, AIX, HP-UX
: or whatever.
I wasn't aware that FHS was aimed at Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, or the Unix
Formerly Known as Digital Unix. Perhaps i show my Internet age, but
wasn't the FHS originally aimed at Linux, with some broadening such
that it would be useful for the *BSDs? When did FHS start specifying
things for Solaris?
: > (2) To my knowledge, use of /mnt/ as a temporary mount point is not
: > nearly as widespread as the practice of /mnt/{cdrom,floppy}. If
:
: Your knowledge is wrong.
"To my knowledge" = approximately "meiner Erfahrung nach". My
knowledge (experience) is in fact correct. It is likely, however, to
be incomplete.
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