On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 05:38:31PM +0100, Tony Travis wrote: > The FHS seems to be focussed on 'stand-alone' machines that may or may > not mount some network filesystems as a client, but it does not state > how filesystems should be 'exported' (or shared) by network servers or > by 'servents' (i.e. machines that can be both clients and servers). > > For example, the FHS states that 'home' directories should be within: > > /home > > This directory could, of course, be mounted from an NFS server, but it > is more flexible to use it as an automount point instead. In the case of > BSD and SunOS/Solaris, 'exported' home directories on a server (or > servent) are typically sub-directories of: > > /export/home
i suppose /srv can be used for this purpose. > All machines, including an NFS servent exporting its own 'home' folder, > use the same automount map where the hostname is now part of the path to > the user's home directory: > > host1:/export/home/user1 -> host2:/home/host1/user1 > host2:/export/home/user2 -> host1:/home/host2/user2 > > For example, the home directory of user1 on any host would then be: > > /home/host1/user1 > > Using the automounter, 'home' directories are now 'exported' from one > host and 'follow' users as they login on different hosts in a network. > > FHS 3.0 could incorporate this widely adopted scheme for using network > filesystems more transparently on NFS servers, clients and servents. and thus force everyone to use it? i think the FHS is mostly concerned with issues that relates to the interaction among applications. things that applications can expect, and that distributors should follow to meet those expectations. i can't think of any application that would break because nfs server directories are in a non-standard location (but my experience on this is quite limited so there may be some). this is all a configuration issue anyways. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix services: debugging, programming, training, linux sysadmin, web development -- pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org foresight developer (open-steam|caudium).org foresightlinux.org unix sysadmin iaeste.at realss.com Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.at/~mbaehr/ is.schon.org _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
