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

From: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:55:57 +0100 (BST)
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, John Baldwin wrote:

>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> We've actually moved most of the filesystems into sys/fs in the past.
> Only
>>> cd9660, nfs, and ufs are in the top-level.  I'd still say leave nfs and
> ufs
>>> alone, but sys/isofs/cd9660 -> sys/fs/cd9660 (I wouldn't keep the extra
> isofs
>>> directory) probably wouldn't be but so painful at this point.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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. :)

The great thing about moving all the network subtrees around is how we can 
break the compile of all the existing applications that include net/*, 
netinet/*, netinet6/*, etc, all in one pass. :-)

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
Received on Fri Sep 29 2006 - 20:55:59 UTC

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