Re: [Cooker] Cooker filesystem vs FHS 2.3

[Claudio Matsuoka]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Buchan Milne wrote:

> But, IMHO this is ridiculous, it's basically:
>
> "Many distributions currently use directories under /mnt/ for removable
> media, but now some stubborn UNIX users refuse to make /mnt/tmp (and
> SuSE wants their directory layout to become the standard) we'll
> introduce /media to confuse everyone currently using Linux"

The FHS is supposed to be a interoperability standard for different
Unixes, not only Linux. System usage of /mnt is, AFAIK, a redhatism,
and still today is only used by Red Hat and derived systems (Slackware
used to provide nothing, Debian, Solaris, HP-UX and BSD used /floppy,
/cdrom). I'm not a /media fan, but system usage of /mnt is a
Red Hat-centric vision. If there's a standard, it's probably /floppy,
/cdrom, but the FHS now mandates /media.

The administrator has, of course, total powers to change local systems
as he sees best. My system, for instance, has:

[claudio@frohike:/] ls -al
total 59
drwxr-xr-x   20 root root  4096 May 21 19:51 .
drwxr-xr-x   20 root root  4096 May 21 19:51 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root root  4096 May 21 08:24 bin
drwxr-xr-x    3 root root  1024 May 20 15:35 boot
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root root    12 May 19 21:54 cdrom -> /media/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root root     6 May 20 15:51 d -> /net/d
drwxr-xr-x   25 root root 14280 May 20 15:44 dev
drwxr-xr-x   74 root root  4096 May 21 19:29 etc
drwxr-xr-x    4 root root  4096 May 20 20:44 home
drwxr-xr-x    2 root root  4096 May 19 18:26 initrd
drwxr-xr-x   11 root root  4096 May 21 08:24 lib
drwxr-xr-x    4 root root  4096 May 17 16:47 media
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root root    20 May 20 12:43 mirrors -> /net/storage/mirrors
drwxr-xr-x    2 root root  4096 May 20 12:44 mnt
drwxr-xr-x    5 root root     0 May 20 12:12 net
drwxr-xr-x    4 root root  4096 Apr 12 11:19 opt
dr-xr-xr-x  154 root root     0 May 20 11:34 proc
drwx------   23 root root  4096 May 21 20:42 root
drwxr-xr-x    2 root root  8192 May 21 08:24 sbin
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root root    12 May 19 21:54 storage -> /net/storage
drwxr-xr-x   10 root root     0 May 20 11:34 sys
drwxrwxrwt   14 root root  1024 May 23 05:02 tmp
drwxr-xr-x   13 root root  4096 May 19 14:02 usr
drwxr-xr-x   17 root root  1024 May 21 08:24 var
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root root     7 May 19 21:54 wb -> /net/wb



> The way I read it (I was planning on writing a mail on Friday when I
> read your wiki page) is that the distributor must provide /srv, but may
> not use it at all.

I think that's a valid interpretation. Debian currently does that.


> What I would probably do with it is use autofs on it ... maybe we could
> provide an autofs map for /srv which mounts (--bind) subdirectories to
> the current locations under /var ?

Would it work better than symlinks?