Future: fhs 2.3 compliance for fc3

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Mar 31 05:56:33 UTC 2004


seth vidal (skvidal at phy.duke.edu) said: 
> I talked to bill nottingham about it - he didn't seem opposed to /srv
> but a bit annoyed by /media
> 
> I don't think it matters fhs compliance is a must, imo.

/srv - well, there's no real *other* good place for this stuff, so,
go for it.

/media, though, as a standard, is *completely* wrongheaded. Standardizing
device names and mountpoints, when they should be left up to
sysadmin discretion. Moreover, it doesn't even completely standardize
them; there's holes in the naming. And, in any case, all of this
information should be exposed to user space via names created
by udev, and by a library interface such as HAL; not by a standard
that's always going to be playing catchup with new device types.

Bill





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