On Thu, 3 May 2012 20:33:19 -0400 Joshua Murphy <poiso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:00 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 05/03/2012 02:48 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:18 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> On 04/13/2012 05:19 PM, walt wrote: > >>>> > >>>> A recent update > >>>> (udev?) on my ~amd64 machines is now mounting removable drives > >>>> on /run/media instead of /media. > >>> > >>> > >>> Ha! I should have suspected Lennart from the beginning: > >>> > >>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=231931ffba1bca9d8759bbd6f797e56f8c6971fa > >> > >> The link you posted has nothing to do with this; that's only a > >> systemd-specific change in response to a change in udisks2. In > >> other words, Lennart has nothing to do with this change, the > >> responsible is David Zeuthen, udisks2 maintainer: > >> > >> https://plus.google.com/u/0/110773474140772402317/posts/NqPUifsFUYH > > > > Thanks for the correction. > > > >> And it's actually a pretty reasonable change (IMHO): now in > >> multiseat configurations each user can plug a USB drive and only > >> him/she will see it > > > > I've thought that for a long time. Mounting my own "personal > > mount" on a system directory never made any sense to me. > > However, /run/media is still a system directory, so it still > > doesn't make any sense to me. > > > > I think /home/wa1ter/media is a more logical choice. But I'm not > > doing the coding in this bazaar ;) > > > > The upstream dev(s) seem intent on mounting removable media on a > > tempfs for some reason. Do you know why? > > > > I understand completely the reason for inventing /run and making it > > a tempfs (I think Lennart *was* involved in that), but why use /run > > when it's not necessary or (IMHO) logical? > > In my completely uninformed guess... a) tmpfs automatically 'cleans > up' every reboot, making sure old folders aren't sitting around stale > even if something did go wrong, and/or b) it's guaranteed writable for > the service that needs to make those mount points. I could probably > come up with a 'c', but I'd likely have to actually do a bit of > reading on the topic before rising looking even more foolishly un-read > on the topic than I already do! :-P > Here you go, one time c): /run can be guaranteed to exist immediately after / is mounted, which fixes a whole slew of really horrible problems if it isn't. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
