[arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Sat Jan 28 05:02:27 EST 2012


On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:50:09AM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:35 AM, G. Schlisio <g.schlisio at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > Am 28.01.2012 00:26, schrieb G. Schlisio:
>> >
>> >> Hi all,
>> >> i used to keep a folder in /media to serve as mountpoint if some manual
>> >> mountis was needed.
>> >> since some days, this folder disappeared, even if created again.
>> >> is there any change in filesystems, kernel or whatsoever changing behavior
>> >> there, is it intended (if so, why?) or a bug?
>> >> every hint appreciated.
>>
>> If you are using initscripts this should not happen.
>>
>> If you are using systemd it should. The justification being that
>> /media is meant for ephemeral mount points (i.e. stuff created by
>> udisks et al.).
>
> Wouldn't most users associate /media with cd, dvd etc. ?
> Seems like on odd name for what systemd uses it for.

cd, dvd, usb sticks, etc are examples of the kind of temporary mount
points created by udisks under /media. They are created on insertion
and deleted on removal. Hence, there is no need to preserve the
contents of /media and having it on tmpfs makes sense.

That said, it seems to be agreement among the upstream devs that
/media is a broken concept and systemd/udisks will likely introduce a
user specific replacement, which will no longer be in the root fs.

-t


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