Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 13:23:46 +0200 From: Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup@freebsd.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Regarding /cdrom in hier(7) Message-ID: <20200507112346.GA53286@freefall.freebsd.org>
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--pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline After a bit of a long conversation on IRC, I've concluded that perhaps it's time for the /cdrom entry in hier(7) to be sent off to better pastures. It's got a bit of a weird history where, before it was implemented, sysinstall used /mnt/dists until that was changed on the 22nd of May 1995, as shown on [1] - and it isn't readily apparent why it was changed, as presumably information from cdroms could easily have been extracted into /mnt/dists from /mnt/cdrom? After then, it spent a bunch of years being hard-coded, until on the 22nd of January, 1997 when it was changed to fix media initialization, as shown on [2]. Media initialization then got moved, along with the rest of sysinstall, with [3], where it spent its days until [4] where nwhitehorn@ gave it a proper sendoff. So my proposal is this: Do we remove /cdrom from hier(7), because at this point nobody should've been using it some time after 1997, or do we keep it around since people might still be using it? Yours hopefully, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen [1]: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/release/sysinstall/media_strategy.c?r1=8701&r2=8702&pathrev=8790&; [2]: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/release/sysinstall/cdrom.c?revision=21937&view=markup&pathrev=21937 [3]: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/71150 [4]: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225937 --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQGTBAABCgB9FiEEDonNJPbg/JLIMoS6Ps5hSHzN87oFAl6z77pfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDBF ODlDRDI0RjZFMEZDOTJDODMyODRCQTNFQ0U2MTQ4N0NDREYzQkEACgkQPs5hSHzN 87rPcQf/eg30s/F52ksWklaeiEsPuX7o4r7uLDLhZ1jbm2lOlbja5k5Ru2q0oBas sqrf6JKHB64YT8uXaUPHzG3AbPr+mm+1Wz4OdfrqTclR/06a81xLo4c5KXVQNKhg Cl4sU7tkl/mOM2eFRFiUuTWiOTj9gDGzi3xfSGIctnLmR+sK8VtW9zrrlqVoOsbz KcNULPbVGP16gx9NrUAHBNX02IUuZG98v8MtejuJeP/sWspiO7XepfPUapaj2Y9d XDuWHLuwUjkNIS9RWfJgunuPtZpFFXG3jj/eYXycThmIXnD6y2ho1D4ts+fPGb13 WtuejhyzaCmDDGLwIqBrbrOjoNyegw== =c/HI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/--
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