Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 05:26:35 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Boris Popov <bp@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: [CFR] /sys/miscfs/* -> /sys/fs/ Message-ID: <XFMail.010522052635.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105222139170.59828-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On 22-May-01 Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >> On 21-May-01 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> > The below patch moves /sys/miscfs/* to /sys/fs. >> > ... >> > The patch is available from here: >> > >> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~ru/miscfs2fs.patch >> >> I'm hoping it follows http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/docs/sysorg.txt? >> >> Note that to be consistent in the naming scheme, I have portal -> portalfs, >> fdesc -> fdescfs, and union -> unionfs. > > This would be bogus unless the filesystems are also renamed. Many filesystem > names don't end in "fs": > > $ ls /sbin/mount_* > /sbin/mount_cd9660 > /sbin/mount_devfs > /sbin/mount_ext2fs > /sbin/mount_fdesc > /sbin/mount_ifs > /sbin/mount_linprocfs > /sbin/mount_mfs > /sbin/mount_msdos > /sbin/mount_nfs > /sbin/mount_ntfs > /sbin/mount_null > /sbin/mount_nwfs > /sbin/mount_portal > /sbin/mount_procfs > /sbin/mount_std > /sbin/mount_umap > /sbin/mount_union > > nullfs and umapfs are already bogusly named. Consistency would be nice. :) I agree that the filesystem names need to be the same everywhere: mount_*, fsck_*, *.ko, sys/modules/* sys/fs/*. > Bruce -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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