Johannes Poehlmann writes: > There are configurations, where it is not desirable to have these > mount points located in the root directory. When using the auto > mounter, the root directory can be "taken over" and be blocked. This > makes it desirable to put the mount points into a subdirectory.
This is good for the rationale section. Are there any other reasons? > There may be a new subdirectory "/mnt.d". It may contain subdirectories > which are mount points for removable media like floppy disk, cdrom > or DVD drives. Also may there be subdirectories which are mount points > for non linux partitions. Nice idea. One complaint we might hear is that the name "/mnt.d" will "interfere" with tab-key shell completion. Then again, my desktop has both /mnt and /mnt2 and I never noticed, so it's probably not that big of an issue. The proposal should define the namespace inside of /mnt.d. Other possible names: /mounts /media /vol (not a good name: conflicting practice, confusion w/ volume manager) Another possibility is to use something like the Sun two-level hierarchy and not automount on the top-level directory. Use /floppy/fd0. Finally, we need to consider whether mount points sit directly under /xxx/<mount point> or under /xxx/<type>/<mount point>. - Dan
