Date: 11 Nov 1998 11:42:42 -0000 From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Message-ID: <19981111114242.7862.qmail@ns.oeno.com> In-Reply-To: <10401.910775245@verdi.nethelp.no> (sthaug@nethelp.no)
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> > > 3. /usr/mdec is a silly-assed name. Who thought of it? What does it even > > The mdec name certainly isn't FreeBSD-specific, changing it would add > > to the difficulty of finding things based on a "general knowledge" of > > Unix-like systems. > Has it: FreeBSD, NetBSD, possibly OpenBSD. > Doesn't have it: Solaris 2, HP-UX, Digital Unix, BSD/OS, RedHat 5.2 Digital UNIX has /mdec. I doubt I'm the only person who associates the name mdec with a directory that contains binary boot code images for various disk/filesystem types and methods of boot. I don't object to changing it, but simply wanted to point out that changing it can add confusion. I don't like the idea of putting boot block images in /boot, though. (Unless they are magically mapped to where they are actually read from on boot) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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