Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:39:49 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck wrappers Message-ID: <51001.961486789@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 04:56:24 %2B0300." <20000620045623.A9045@happy.checkpoint.com>
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In message <20000620045623.A9045@happy.checkpoint.com>, Anatoly Vorobey writes: >On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 01:42:33PM +0200, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> >> * the rest of the system treats ffs filesystems as "ufs". Besides the >> fact that I dislike this, I decided against the NetBSD way of > >Isn't it time, anyway, to fix this? This legacy dates from long >time ago; e.g. the log message in the kernel code which declares >the ffs module (it reads: `` Call ffs ``ufs'' for the benefit of poor, >confused user-land programs. '') dates to September '94. > >Are there any arguments against changing the filesystem type name to >'ffs' in the kernel and in the userland? If not, I'll volunteer to >find all kernel/userland uses I can and provide a diff. The correct way to do this is to make it accept both for some limited time, and then warn about the obsolete for a few months, then discontinue it. -- 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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