Re: [9fans] cdrom floppy tape etc, media mount point

[rog@vitanuova.com]

> If you make a directory mode 0777 they you have no say about what
> silly users will put in it (or take out of it), but you can be sure
> (by hypothesis) that you won't like it.  That's why Plan 9 doesn't have
> a world writable /tmp.

oh i see.
you are assuming, however, that /n is implemented on a file server.
on some systems, i've seen it implemented as part of #/ (i.e.  read
only - requires a kernel build to add to it).

i quite like the garbage-collected nature of autodir; between them /n
and /mnt have 52 entries in them on this system and, checking in a rio
window, only 7 are in use.

being able to ls /n and see what mountpoints have been used in this
session seems quite useful; and it means i'd feel no compunction about
doing something like:

	for (i in $manyftpservers) {
		ftpfs -a me@home -m /n/ftp.$i $i
	}

oh yes, autodir also means i don't have to worry about doing the mkdir
first, which means i can just run the usual programs and they can
blithely mount themselves. that's possibly its main advantage.

  cheers,
    rog.