dragoran wrote:
alan wrote:
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, John Summerfied wrote:
dragoran wrote:
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.
What problem does the new behaviour solve?
None that I can see. Nautilus already puts desciptive text on the icon
that a gui user would use. A command line user will use tab
completion and trial and error to figure out where the data is at.
Legacy programs understand a fixed point in the filesystem.
If the new behaviour does not solve any problem then there is no
justification for it.
Except this symlink would need to be added by the automounter code, as
it will have to be created and destroyed by mounts and unmounts.
What problem does a symlink solve?
The problem here is not gui v.s. command line. The problem is user
v.s. program.
No it's not just that.
I, a user, would be well-pleased to be able to insert a CD and mount it
_myself_ at /media/cdrom.
No automount. No dynamically-created mount points depending on what the
volume label says. Not even different mount points depending on wheter
it's a -ROM drive or a -writer drive or whether I insert a CD or DVD.
No symlinks either; different names for the same thing only get in the way.
My laptop has a DVD writer in it, and is running SUSE 10. Suse creates
/media/cdrom
/media/dvdrom
/media/cdwriter
/media/dvdwriter
and when there's a mounted CD/DVD
/media/<volume>
All but one are symlinks. All this proliferation of names does is bugger
up tab-completion, which I try to use extensively.
A user can figure out (hopefully) where the drive mounted. A program
is going to have to have some sort of defined method to find out where
the cdrom is at. (Not to mention the security implications of
trusting a symlink as a mounted drive. Any sane program would not
open a symlink for any removable media.)
then use the old mount points and add a link /media/volume -> /media/cdromX
Those how prefer /media/volume would not care if it is a symlink or not.
But /media/volume doesn't solve any problem, does it?
A desktop user would either click on the desktop icon or on the icon in
computer:/// so they don't have to care about mount points anyway.
Exactly.
So where is the point in having /media/volume ? It makes more problems
than it solves (if any)
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