CDs mount to volume name

[John Summerfied]

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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