Regarding /cdrom in hier(7)

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 09:26:26AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >> 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
> 
> Thanks, Rod.
> 
> That's why I thought I'd ask first, because I knew it was not just the man-page 
> that needed tending to - though I see you've found even more instances than I 
> did in a quick grep through things. I'll make a note of all the places, then 
> wait a bit longer to see if anyone has anything to say on the topic, then set to it.
> 
> Hopefully I'll get around to it some time before hedgehogs start hibernating. :)

You might want to run:
:root {1010}# find /usr/src/ -type f | xargs grep -i /cdrom

> 
> Yours respectfully,
> Daniel Ebdrup Jensen

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org