From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 25 15:10:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA18816 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:10:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA18805 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:10:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA26124; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:57:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703252257.PAA26124@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. To: perry@piermont.com Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:57:10 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org, darrenr@cyber.com.au In-Reply-To: <199703252250.RAA02702@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Mar 25, 97 05:50:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Lets get serious here. > > 4.4lite introduced the entire mount_${fs} thing. > > It is arguable whether it is better to say ffs_mount or mount_ffs, but > frankly it doesn't matter much, and having picked one there is no good > reason to break people by switching back. > > This isn't the sort of thing that is so critical that there is a > reason to be gratuitously incompatible with what another BSD is doing, > and 4.4lite set the precedent. BSD4.4-Lite arguably screwed up FS modularity in many ways. This is one of them. If all our friends jumped off a bridge, should we? Like our friends from the bridge, CSRG is quite dead. The only reasonably uniform mechanism for modular insertion/deletion of supported file systems from an OS involves grouping the files by FS. Ideally, the grouping should be done on a directory basis rather than a prefix basis so that only a single point of adjustment is necessary to perform the insertion or deletion. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.