On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> ...and he believes that the name
> of the filesystem type should be defined purely by the name used in
> the /sbin/fs directory, and not by anything inherent in the binaries
> found inside /sbin/fs/foo/.

In other words, one wants /sbin/nfs/mount, and /sbin/nfs/nfsmount
is wrong because the word `nfs' appears in the files under /sbin/nfs?

I can't see what advantage this offers besides aesthetic. Certainly
the code doesn't care whether or not there's an _ or a / between
the two %s strings in the printf format.

It does seem to me to be a disadvantage in that if the file is ever
encountered outside of the tree (say, you restore a single file
from backup) it's very easy to get confused as to which mount
program it is.

cjs

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