On Sun, 15 May 2011 17:48:50 +0200, Lennart Poettering
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I guess the idea behind /var is that of variable STATE data,.. and not
>> just ANY variable data (most data is variable anyway).
> 
> Uh. I think /var is very much the right place for MySQL server data and
> other non-user-specific dynamic data.

What do you mean by non-user-specific data?

If I e.g. have a DB that stores addresses,... than I'd say the files that
contains the actual data (especially the addresses) should go to
/srv/something...
Any e.g dynamic indices (which can be easily rebuilt) should go to /var.


Cheers,
Chris.
_______________________________________________
fhs-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss

Reply via email to