Regarding /cdrom in hier(7)

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> 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 at freebsd.org