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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: RE: [CFR] /sys/miscfs/* -> /sys/fs/
Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Boris Popov <bp@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.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

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