Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 21:22:30 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /sys hierarchy Message-ID: <1482.962479350@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jul 2000 12:12:58 PDT." <20000701121258.A59770@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In message <20000701121258.A59770@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 01:26:17PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 07:14:35PM +0400, Ilmar S. Habibulin wrote: >> > Some order, i suppose. >> >> There is plenty of order in the current system. > >Feh. > >> Garrett Wollman suggested that you answer this question carefully, and >> you have not done that, but provide a vague summary of your beliefs. > >Yes he did. Talk to various committers and you'll see that many have >ideas where files should live. There have been long threads on this >issue that got nowhere. The reason things are in such a messy state is >when something new is brought in, or is changed suffiently much for a >repo copy the person take the chance to put the files where *they* think >they should live. Vs. where there would be consistency in the /sys tree. In fact, I belive there actually was a consensus for moving filesystems under /sys/fs but not for moving net*. The reason for the difference in concensus is probably that net* is a systematic prefix. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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