On Sat, 2011-12-24 at 13:39 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:21 PM, JB <jb.1234abcd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Anything mounted on /media has to be of actual "type" of that media. > > Btw, a CD mounted on /media, even if temporarily, represents "a persistent > > storage device", and certainly NOT "volatile memory" (e.g. of type shm). > > > > I think systemd devs need to remove it - it is a pure nonsense. > > /media is on tmpfs simply because it's faster to keep the mountpoints > in memory than on disk. That way, you don't have to hit your root > disk just to locate something that is almost certainly on another > disk. It doesn't affect the mounts below it in any way. > > -T.C. People keep saying that /media is mounted on tmpfs, but what the mount tells me is that tmpfs is mounted on /media. Which sounds screwy to me. -- ======================================================================= It's bad enough that life is a rat-race, but why do the rats always have to win? ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
