Mike -- You're covered, yes.
FHS does not say that /usr/local cannot be a sym-link. Only that it is the place the sysadmin (or customer) puts non-vendor stuff or non-opsys stuff or non-distro stuff. John -- One FS hiding another is ... for example ... if /usr/local were a directory instead of a sym-link and you then mount /usr afterward, the /usr you mount would hide the /usr/local you had previously mounted. Rare, yes, but possible. In any case, cascaded mount points is something I was hoping to (continue to) avoid. Mark -- So ... by now ... you get the idea? It's not that /local is sacred nor that /usr/local is bad, just that I am personally (and we are at my shop) in the habit of making these each be unique filesystems. But we're doing some clean-up, so one of the guys thought we should ask: What is the impact? So far, no one has said there is our would be a problem. I have never believed there would be, but in "business" one wants to be well documented. :-) -- R; <>< On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 14:24, Michael MacIsaac <[email protected]> wrote: > Rick, > >> What do y'all say? > I'm not Red Hat nor Novell, but I'll chip in because I think I'm covered > under "y'all" :)) > > We moved from writing about /local/ to /usr/local/ as /usr/local/ is in > the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS): > > <quote> > "The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when > installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten > when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs and data > that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr. > > Locally installed software must be placed within /usr/local rather than > /usr unless it is being installed to replace or upgrade software in /usr. > " > </quote> > > I'm guessing you know this already and are perhaps trying to address it, > but I thought it was worth mentioning. > > "Mike MacIsaac" <[email protected]> (845) 433-7061 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
