CDs mount to volume name

[dragoran]

alan wrote:

>On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, John Summerfied wrote:
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>>dragoran wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>What problem does the new behaviour solve?
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>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.
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>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.
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>The problem here is not gui v.s. command line.  The problem is user v.s. 
>program.
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>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.) 
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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.
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.
So where is the point in having /media/volume ? It makes more problems 
than it solves (if any)