Karsten Fischer wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2006, 11:03 +0100 schrieb Tomas Mraz:
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 10:49 +0100, Karsten Fischer wrote:
Why should you? I am pretty comfortable with that right now; but then I
also use a Mac, where this kind of mounting seems to be quite normal and
does not cause trouble. Anyway, a mount with the name like "Doom 4 for
Linux Disk 2 of 2" sounds much more descriptive than "cdrom", now does
it?
;)
Except when you want to use command line. The GUI (Nautilus) worked
pretty good for normal users (displaying the volume name under the icon)
previously without the need for such mount point names.
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Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx>>
Well put. But then, how about having both? Lets say there would exist
a subdirectory within '/media' called devices, in which all devices
have their proper names? On the other hand, it might be a bit
complicated, granted.
I really don't get your point - why shouldn't I use something like 'ls
/media/Doom_for_Linux' instead of 'ls /media/cdrom'? If somebody does
create an application which is shipped on CD why should the
aforementioned installer fail (like posted in the post earlier)? This
behaviour is completely consistent with Fedora's boot-process (ahem,
within grub, of course), where, instead of an device like '/dev/sda'
the root-device is identified using its label, adding a lot of
flexibility (or, could add, since grub itself needs its own
device-map, hope it can get rid of it :)
I agree that for now this is an issue - but I personally think things
should shift towards using descriptive names for mount points, even on
the command line. If somebody sees 'Doom for Linux' in the GUI, it
makes searching for that specific CD easier even on the command line
in the end, especially if you have - like i do - a couple of different
CD/DVD devices attached to your box, most of them via FireWire or USB2...
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Karsten Fischer
what about adding a symlink from /media/cdrom to /media/volumename ?
wouldn't break old apps, and thus ho preffer the new behaviour can use it.
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