Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:57:10 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: perry@piermont.com 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 Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. Message-ID: <199703252257.PAA26124@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199703252250.RAA02702@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Mar 25, 97 05:50:44 pm
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> 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
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