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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2001 16:27:24 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Boris Popov <bp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: [CFR] /sys/miscfs/* -> /sys/fs/
Message-ID:  <20010522162724.C99517@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010522052635.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:26:35AM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105222139170.59828-100000@besplex.bde.org> <XFMail.010522052635.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:26:35AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 22-May-01 Bruce Evans wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 May 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
> > 
> >> On 21-May-01 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >> > The below patch moves /sys/miscfs/* to /sys/fs.
> >> > ...
> >> > The patch is available from here:
> >> > 
> >> >       http://www.FreeBSD.org/~ru/miscfs2fs.patch
> >> 
> >> I'm hoping it follows http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/docs/sysorg.txt?
> >> 
> >> Note that to be consistent in the naming scheme, I have portal -> portalfs,
> >> fdesc -> fdescfs, and union -> unionfs.
> > 
> > This would be bogus unless the filesystems are also renamed.  Many filesystem
> > names don't end in "fs":
> > 
> > $ ls /sbin/mount_*
> > /sbin/mount_cd9660
> > /sbin/mount_devfs
> > /sbin/mount_ext2fs
> > /sbin/mount_fdesc
> > /sbin/mount_ifs
> > /sbin/mount_linprocfs
> > /sbin/mount_mfs
> > /sbin/mount_msdos
> > /sbin/mount_nfs
> > /sbin/mount_ntfs
> > /sbin/mount_null
> > /sbin/mount_nwfs
> > /sbin/mount_portal
> > /sbin/mount_procfs
> > /sbin/mount_std
> > /sbin/mount_umap
> > /sbin/mount_union
> > 
> > nullfs and umapfs are already bogusly named.
> 
> Consistency would be nice. :)  I agree that the filesystem names need to be the
> same everywhere: mount_*, fsck_*, *.ko, sys/modules/* sys/fs/*.
> 
Except for mount_* please.  Doing this would break people's fstab(5)'s.
I've implemented the rest.


Cheers,
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