/media -> /run/media???

[Andrew Lutomirski]

On Aug 15, 2014 7:21 PM, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 08:07 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com>
wrote:
> >> > On 08/14/2014 12:17 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >> >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:06:11AM +0200, Ondrej Vasik wrote:
> >> >>> Actually I'm going to revert the /media -> /run/media change.
> >> >
> >> > The above sentence is unfortunately ambiguous.
> >> >
> >> >>> It is really not solving the issue it was trying to help with and
in
> >> >>> addition it might be fragile in some cases. Sorry for the noise.
> >> >>
> >> >> Hmmmm... that should probablt be run through the change process...
it needs
> >> >> release notes at least!
> >> >
> >> > No, I'm sure Ondřej only meant that he'd revert the replacement
> >> > of the /media directory with a symlink to /run/media, which was in
Rawhide
> >> > for only two weeks or so.
> >> >
> >> > He does not intend to change the path where removable media get
mounted.
> >> >
> >> > Michal
> >>
> >> Ondrey, I hope that you meant you'd revert the entire change. and put
> >> removeable media mounting back in /media. I've still not seen a single
> >> reason for the move, only a bugzilla about getting it tot work
> >> correctly. Following the more recent File System hierarchy documents
> >> and putting it in the documented /media makes much more sense.
> >
> > I just reverted the "two weeks in rawhide" symlink change
> > already. /media is no longer symlink in Rawhide. Removeable media mount
> > point is not under control of filesystem package (udisks2 mount them
> > to /run/media/$USER/$Volname ).
> > Based on Michal's suggestion, you can use UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED set
> > to 1 to have removeable media mounted in /media instead
> > of /run/media/$USER/ .
>
> *sigh*. Then the default should have been to set
> UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED to 1. Let people who *want* it in the new
> "/run/media/$USER/mountdir" select it. And it's *still* a violation of
> even the most recent filesystem hierarchy standards, which discuss the
> use of "/run" and "/var/run" for pid files, not for removable media.
> Files in /run are supposed to be scrubbed or truncated at boot time!!!
>
> Think I can get any traction getting that default reset at this point?

No, because:

- Security

- Automatically generated names will never reliably match you expectation
in /media no matter what udisks does.

--Andy

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