On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:00 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?
So the mountpoint can be created on the fly, and so it is also volatile. The system could "mkdir /media/<mountpoint>" everytime a USB is plugged, and then "rmdir /media/<mountpoint>" when it's unplugged; but if something happens (a power failure or something similar), then you would need to manually remove the stale dir, or have a process do it from time to time. Actually, some years ago it was not rare to have such stale directories under /media. None of this happens with a tmpfs. > 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? I don't know, really. gvfs (the new virtual filesystem for GNOME) mounts the remote shares in $HOME/.gvfs (which is also a tmpfs). I suppose a $HOME/.mount could be created. I personally don't care, but it is certainly not consistent. However, I agree with the idea of getting rid of the /media dir, and I have not used /mnt in years, so I'm thinking on deleting both so my root dir is cleaner. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
