From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 20 0:40:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 486AA37BAEA; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA51003; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:39:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Anatoly Vorobey Cc: Adrian Chadd , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck wrappers In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 04:56:24 +0300." <20000620045623.A9045@happy.checkpoint.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:39:49 +0200 Message-ID: <51001.961486789@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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