On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:01:21AM +0200, Martin Baehr wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:47:41PM +0100, Tony Travis wrote: > > This man page describes how /export is used under FreeBSD/SunOS: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=filesystem&manpath=SunOS+4.1.3 > > interesting. > if we want to get BSD people back into the FHS then i think an attempt > should be made to merge this into the FHS. at least the non-conflicting > parts for start.
actually, the above is only the old SunOS, more relevant are http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&manpath=NetBSD+5.1 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&manpath=OpenBSD+4.7 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&manpath=FreeBSD+9-current i don't find the differences to the FHS all that big, so i think reconciliation is possible. i get the impression however that compared to the FHS these documents are much more descriptive and not prescriptive. they simply document the existing structure and don't set rules. the FreeBSD version even contains this note: This manual page documents the default FreeBSD file system layout, but the actual hierarchy on a given system is defined at the system adminis- trator's discretion. A well-maintained installation will include a cus- tomized version of this document. it is likely that the interest in participating in the FHS effort from the *BSD camp is low simply because they may not be interested in prescribing any structure, but only documenting their reality. yet i think for any decision made for the FHS, a look at the *BSD reality is worth to be taken into account. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix services: debugging, programming, training, linux sysadmin, web development -- pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org foresight developer (open-steam|caudium).org foresightlinux.org unix sysadmin iaeste.at realss.com Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.at/~mbaehr/ is.schon.org _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
