Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:26:35 -0500 From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.east-arlington.ma.us> To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, perry@piermont.com, hackers@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org Subject: Re: how to name fs specific programs Message-ID: <199703261426.OAA10034@orchard.east-arlington.ma.us> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:46:15 -0800 ." <199703260646.WAA14086@Pescadero.DSG.Stanford.EDU>
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I believe I understand what Terry's suggesting.
He wants to be able to be able to have a new filesystem type appear by
simply mounting (or symlinking, or copying) the implementation of a
new filesystem type into /sbin/fs/foo, and he believes that the name
of the filesystem type should be defined purely by the name used in
the /sbin/fs directory, and not by anything inherent in the binaries
found inside /sbin/fs/foo/.
so that, as an extreme case, one could do
mv /sbin/fs/{nfs,losefs}
and
sed 's/nfs/losefs/' </etc/fstab >/etc/fstab.NEW && mv /etc/fstab{.NEW,}
and reboot, and everything will keep working..
- Bill
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