From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 09:57:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13793 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:57:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles229.castles.com [208.214.165.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA13779 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:57:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04059; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:56:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811111756.JAA04059@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "11 Nov 1998 11:42:42 GMT." <19981111114242.7862.qmail@ns.oeno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:56:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > 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) I think the issue is perhaps a little over-emotional. The images total 8k in three files, and really don't justify or warrant a directory all to themselves *anywhere*. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message