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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps is too big
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Martin Schlemmer wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 19:00 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
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>>sys-storage:  or move stuff to sys-fs?
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>If we go how sys-fs looks now, mdadm should go to sys-fs as well, as
>raidtools, lvm, evms, etc are there already.
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But these are not really file systems per say, I would say more
sys-block or sys-rbm (random block management) or sys-blockdev ...

>Also, some things are a bit vague, like hdparm might rather go to
>sys-hardware.
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sys-block

>A thought might be to move all these (except hdparm, etc), as well as
>sys-fs to sys-storage rather.  If we really go by sys-fs means to me at
>least, it probably should only be the fsck's, and devfs/udev that stay
>there if any.
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devfs/udev are in fact pseudofs ... so they could be splitted in the 
future if ever needed...

Phil
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