Just because it is written down does not mean it was written down by a bunch of die hards with baggage. The hole reason for splitting your programs between /usr and /var is so you can mount /usr read only for security. And it could be argued that this was done to make up for the lack of security granularity in the file system. Even then it is only applicable to a server environment and makes running this on a client a pain in the keester.
But thank you for the link I've been meaning to find that. Brian On 9/24/07, Bart Whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/24/07, Brian Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My suspicion is that the file system layout > > for Linux has a lot of baggage that die hards are not willing to get rid > > of. > > > > > The file system layout is a published standard > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ > Required by the LSB > > http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/execenvfhs.html > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
