From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin C.Atkins To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrom floppy tape etc, media mount point Message-Id: <20020716132609.5d4dfcba.martin@mca-ltd.com> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:26:09 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cd115148-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:45:38 +0100 rog@vitanuova.com wrote: >.. > i haven't used it in earnest, but it always seemed a bit unnatural > to have to pre-create mount points for all future services; > perhaps there's a place for something like this under plan 9? > (it's only a couple of hours work). > > cheers, > rog. > I assume that this is much of the reason why resources are usually union-bound to /net or /dev (for example), when they might more logically have been mounted directly on to /dev/X, or /net/Y? Martin -- Martin C. Atkins martin@mca-ltd.com Mission Critical Applications Ltd, U.K.