Re: FHS 2.3 and /srv & /media
At 2003/11/5 12:28+0100 Tobias Burnus writes:
> http://www.samba.org/~cyeoh/
>
> The diff 2.2 to 2.3 beta _1_ is here:
> http://www.samba.org/~cyeoh/fhs_2.3_changes.txt
I just added a diff from 2.2 to 2.3 beta 3:
http://www.samba.org/~cyeoh/fhs_2.3_changes_beta3.txt
(There is a little bit of noise in there due to some initial
translation bugs to SGML from the original nroff source)
> PS: I never had problems accessing http://bugs.freestandards.org/, it
> worked this morning and it is now working.
It looks like the freestandards.org nameservers are both down at the
moment. Might still be cached in some places though. Keep a copy of
the IP addresses while you have them :-)
> PPS: Regarding to FHS 2.3 minus /srv and /media: I'm in favour of this
> /media: Bad name maybe, but no-one has come up with a better name
> definitively better than /mnt/cdrom etc.
> I'm personally not sure whether I like /cdrom, /floppy etc.
> or /media/{cdrom,floppy} more.
I think the main problem with placing them directly in the root
directory is the increasing number of directories that are going to be
created due to more types of removeable media - eg zip drives, usb
keys, etc.
Regards,
Chris
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cyeoh@au.ibm.com
IBM OzLabs Linux Development Group
Canberra, Australia
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