From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Apr 23 9: 0:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48D3737B41A for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:59:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020423155958.FSJG2377.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:59:58 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3NFxvcB053476; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:59:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g3NFxvDV053475; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204231559.g3NFxvDV053475@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020416 with nmh-1.0.4 To: David Schultz Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAQ 18.12 (directory layout) outdated? In-reply-to: <20020423010414.A7764@HAL9000.wox.org> References: <20020423010414.A7764@HAL9000.wox.org> Comments: In-reply-to David Schultz message dated "Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:04:14 -0700." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:59:57 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If memory serves me right, David Schultz wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#ALTERNATE- > DIRECTORY-LAYOUT > > Isn't this obsolete as of 4.5 with the introduction of dirprefs? Just a nitpick: There has *always* been a dirprefs() function. What happened between 4.4-RELEASE and 4.5-RELEASE was that this function was *changed* in an attempt to speed up filesystem operations. I agree...this needs an update. > I think a number of other entries in section 18 are also out of date > or obsolete. Most of the references to FreeBSD 2.X can probably go > from the FAQ. Apologies if this has been discussed before; I couldn't > find anything in the archives. Please CC responses to me. Aside from the directory layout question, I didn't see anything that was obviously wrong, but if there's anything specific you think should go away (or be updated), do a send-pr or drop a note to this list. (OK, I see one. "Why does make world clobber my existing installed binaries?" With the recommended buildworld/buildkernel/installworld/ installkernel upgrade process, this question doesn't make quite as much sense as it used to.) Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message