isofs/cd9660 -> relocate to fs/isofs/cd9660?
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Sep 29 14:24:31 PDT 2006
On Friday 29 September 2006 12:19, Scott Long wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 September 2006 16:43, Scott Long wrote:
> >
> >>Eric Anderson wrote:
> >>
> >>>I noticed that cd9660 file system is in sys/isofs/cd9660 instead of what
> >>>seems more logical: sys/fs/cd9660. Is there any reason not to move it?
> >>> Curious mostly..
> >>>
> >>>Eric
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>Inertia, mostly. And if you move cd9660, do you also move ufs? Let the
> >>bi-yearly debate begin.....
> >>
> >>Btw, this is a topic that is easily searched on, as it gets brought up
> >>fairly regularly. We were a bit late on the schedule this time, though,
> >>so thanks for giving it a kickstart.
> >
> >
> > We've actually moved most of the filesystems into sys/fs in the past.
Only
> > cd9660, nfs, and ufs are in the top-level. I'd still say leave nfs and
ufs
> > alone, but sys/isofs/cd9660 -> sys/fs/cd9660 (I wouldn't keep the extra
isofs
> > directory) probably wouldn't be but so painful at this point.
> >
>
> What about moving all of the net* directories into /sys/net?. And
> don't forget putting i386 and friends into /sys/arch! Ah, I love the
> smell of fresh paint in the morning. Smells like.... napalm.
Baby steps aren't hard. :) Back when I first made rumblings about this sort
of thing we didn't have a sys/fs at all, but now we do and over time we've
actually moved most of our filesystems into it. :)
--
John Baldwin
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