On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:09:14 +0000, Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]> wrote: > And to me it would make the most sense in having someting like what I've > initially proposed: > > /var: > - dynamically generated > - purely internally used data (i.e. state data) but not things which are > indirectly used and are actual/precious data (e.g. database server files) > - things that can easily be lost (and regenerated)
I'm not sure where you get this "/var is temporary" idea. It's not. /var was added so /usr can be basically read-only, and shared between multiple machines. It's stuff that gets re-written, ie. data. Then /srv was added because some things really require a single hierarchy for their content, the classic being web servers, and people felt uncomfortable with /var/www and /home/www. Cheers, Rusty. _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
