Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 11:16:25 -0700 From: Chris <bsd-lists@BSDforge.com> To: Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup@freebsd.org> Cc: <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Regarding /cdrom in hier(7) Message-ID: <3e7c5b0eb9bdba8e6c1ba23f3f34da87@udns.ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <20200507112346.GA53286@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 7 May 2020 13:23:46 +0200 Daniel Ebdrup Jensen debdrup@freebsd.org said > After a bit of a long conversation on IRC, I've concluded that perhaps > it's time for the /cdrom entry in hier(7) to be sent off to better > pastures. > > It's got a bit of a weird history where, before it was implemented, > sysinstall used /mnt/dists until that was changed on the 22nd of May > 1995, as shown on [1] - and it isn't readily apparent why it was > changed, as presumably information from cdroms could easily have been > extracted into /mnt/dists from /mnt/cdrom? > > After then, it spent a bunch of years being hard-coded, until on > the 22nd of January, 1997 when it was changed to fix media > initialization, as shown on [2]. > > Media initialization then got moved, along with the rest of > sysinstall, with [3], where it spent its days until [4] where > nwhitehorn@ gave it a proper sendoff. > > So my proposal is this: Do we remove /cdrom from hier(7), because at > this point nobody should've been using it some time after 1997, or do > we keep it around since people might still be using it? Paint it blue! ;-) On a more serious note. IMHO, if it counts, would be to nuke it. Doesn't /media && /mnt already cover it's intended use case? Even if some, even if many, still depend on it. It's fairly trivial to add it to fstab(5). No? --Chris P.S. Thanks for the history, Daniel. :-) I can still remember installing over a modem, and juggling floppy disks -- whew! Glad those days are over. :-) > > Yours hopefully, > Daniel Ebdrup Jensen > > [1]: > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/release/sysinstall/media_strategy.c?r1=8701&r2=8702&pathrev=8790&; > [2]: > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/release/sysinstall/cdrom.c?revision=21937&view=markup&pathrev=21937 > [3]: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/71150 > [4]: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225937
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