On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:17:17AM +0000, Stroller wrote: > > On Feb 4, 2004, at 11:44 pm, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > >On Wednesday 04 February 2004 1:37 am, Jon Portnoy wrote: > >>What does /srv give us that /var doesn't? > >... > >I don't think that this is an example of the FHS doing against the way > >that > >UNIX works - just going against the current habits on many Linux users. > > Indeed. As Linux's use of /mnt/subdirectories went against the > conventions of Unix sysadmins a decade ago. > But at that time lots of workstations didn't have a single > removable-media drive - imagine having separate additional /floppy > /cd-writer /dvd-rom /zip in root. > > >From what's been said so far, I think we should introduce the /srv > >hierarchy. > > One vote from just a user.
Add another vote from a user. I haven't really read the fhs that much, but it seems to me that /var is _machine_ specific data, and /srv would be _daemon_ specific or _service_ specific data. That separation makes sense to me. :-) William -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
