Re: isofs/cd9660 -> relocate to fs/isofs/cd9660?

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:45:18 -0700
John Baldwin wrote:

>On Friday 29 September 2006 12:19, Scott Long wrote:
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>>John Baldwin wrote:
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>>>On Wednesday 27 September 2006 16:43, Scott Long wrote:
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>>>>Eric Anderson wrote:
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>>>>>I noticed that cd9660 file system is in sys/isofs/cd9660 instead of what 
>>>>>seems more logical: sys/fs/cd9660.  Is there any reason not to move it? 
>>>>>  Curious mostly..
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>>>>>Eric
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>>>>Inertia, mostly.  And if you move cd9660, do you also move ufs?  Let the
>>>>bi-yearly debate begin.....
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>>>>Btw, this is a topic that is easily searched on, as it gets brought up
>>>>fairly regularly.  We were a bit late on the schedule this time, though,
>>>>so thanks for giving it a kickstart.
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>>>We've actually moved most of the filesystems into sys/fs in the past.  
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>>>cd9660, nfs, and ufs are in the top-level.  I'd still say leave nfs and 
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>ufs 
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>>>alone, but sys/isofs/cd9660 -> sys/fs/cd9660 (I wouldn't keep the extra 
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>isofs 
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>>>directory) probably wouldn't be but so painful at this point.
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>>What about moving all of the net* directories into /sys/net?.  And
>>don't forget putting i386 and friends into /sys/arch!  Ah, I love the
>>smell of fresh paint in the morning.  Smells like.... napalm.
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>Baby steps aren't hard. :)  Back when I first made rumblings about this sort 
>of thing we didn't have a sys/fs at all, but now we do and over time we've 
>actually moved most of our filesystems into it. :)
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there was a sys/miscfs which could have been used..

Matt Dillon took the oportunity to redo the tree in DF.
I wonder how that's working out?
Received on Fri Sep 29 2006 - 19:45:24 UTC

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