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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:00 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 05/03/2012 02:48 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:18 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> On 04/13/2012 05:19 PM, walt wrote: |
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>>>> A recent update |
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>>>> (udev?) on my ~amd64 machines is now mounting removable drives |
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>>>> on /run/media instead of /media. |
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>>> Ha! I should have suspected Lennart from the beginning: |
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>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=231931ffba1bca9d8759bbd6f797e56f8c6971fa |
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>> The link you posted has nothing to do with this; that's only a |
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>> systemd-specific change in response to a change in udisks2. In other |
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>> words, Lennart has nothing to do with this change, the responsible is |
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>> David Zeuthen, udisks2 maintainer: |
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>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/110773474140772402317/posts/NqPUifsFUYH |
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> Thanks for the correction. |
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>> And it's actually a pretty reasonable change (IMHO): now in multiseat |
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>> configurations each user can plug a USB drive and only him/she will |
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>> see it |
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> I've thought that for a long time. Mounting my own "personal mount" on |
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> a system directory never made any sense to me. However, /run/media is |
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> still a system directory, so it still doesn't make any sense to me. |
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> I think /home/wa1ter/media is a more logical choice. But I'm not doing |
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> the coding in this bazaar ;) |
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> The upstream dev(s) seem intent on mounting removable media on a tempfs |
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> for some reason. Do you know why? |
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> I understand completely the reason for inventing /run and making it a |
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> tempfs (I think Lennart *was* involved in that), but why use /run when |
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> it's not necessary or (IMHO) logical? |
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In my completely uninformed guess... a) tmpfs automatically 'cleans |
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up' every reboot, making sure old folders aren't sitting around stale |
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even if something did go wrong, and/or b) it's guaranteed writable for |
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the service that needs to make those mount points. I could probably |
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come up with a 'c', but I'd likely have to actually do a bit of |
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reading on the topic before rising looking even more foolishly un-read |
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on the topic than I already do! :-P |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |