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To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, perry@piermont.com, hackers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: how to name fs specific programs 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:46:15 -0800 ."
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:26:35 -0500
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.east-arlington.ma.us>
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I believe I understand what Terry's suggesting.

He wants to be able to be able to have a new filesystem type appear by
simply mounting (or symlinking, or copying) the implementation of a
new filesystem type into /sbin/fs/foo, and he believes that the name
of the filesystem type should be defined purely by the name used in
the /sbin/fs directory, and not by anything inherent in the binaries
found inside /sbin/fs/foo/.

so that, as an extreme case, one could do
	mv /sbin/fs/{nfs,losefs}
and 
	sed 's/nfs/losefs/' </etc/fstab >/etc/fstab.NEW && mv /etc/fstab{.NEW,}

and reboot, and everything will keep working..

						- Bill