Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 09:26:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding /cdrom in hier(7) Message-ID: <202005071626.047GQQH1048671@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20200507112346.GA53286@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> 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 It is time to go, BUTT you need to clean up more than just hier(7), as this like most changes in FreeBSD is a weed and it has roots all over the place: :root {1007}# find /usr/share/man -type f | xargs zgrep -i /cdrom ./man1/locate.1.gz:$ locate -d $HOME/lib/mydb::/cdrom/locate.database foo ./man1/locate.1.gz:.Pa /cdrom/locate.database . ./man1/cdcontrol.1.gz:.Pa /dev/cdrom , ./man1/recoverdisk.1.gz:recoverdisk /cdrom/file.avi file.avi ./man8/ggatec.8.gz:client# mount_cd9660 /dev/ggate0 /cdrom ./man8/mount.8.gz:mount -t cd9660 -o -e /dev/cd0 /cdrom ./man8/mount.8.gz:/sbin/mount_cd9660 -e /dev/cd0 /cdrom ./man8/mount_cd9660.8.gz:.Dl "mount_cd9660 -o rw -v -s 0 /dev/cd0 /cdrom" ./man5/devfs.conf.5.gz:.Pa /dev/cdrom ./man5/devfs.conf.5.gz:.Pa /dev/cdrom ./man5/exports.5.gz:/cdrom -alldirs,quiet,ro -network 192.168.33.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 ./man5/exports.5.gz:.Pa /cdrom ./man5/exports.5.gz:.Pa /cdrom ./man5/exports.5.gz:.Pa /cdrom ./man5/exports.5.gz:.Pa /cdrom , ./man5/exports.5.gz:.Pa /cdrom ./man5/fstab.5.gz:/dev/cd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 ./man7/hier.7.gz:.It Pa /cdrom/ -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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