Re: / /home on different partitions?

Vahis meinte:
On 2008-05-25, houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Vahis wrote:


IMHO there are many more standards missing in Linux hierarchy.
The configuration files being the worst to me personally, but YMMV.

Shared only on this computer or also network?
If network, NFS, Samba or what?

That is irrelevant as to what the standard directory will be.

I think not. If all shared files are in one place it causes more work to
share different stuff in different ways among different users.

I keep different data shared in different ways in different locations,
but again, YMMV.

If we're talking about file services I see no significant advantage for a
standardized "shared path". On most networks I saw a separate tree for
these needs, mounted in a directory often simply named like the company.
Easy to mount local, easy to mount via network and mounted with all
special needs like ACL, quota, etc. you might have.


All the rest also has nothing to do as to wether you have a standard
or not. Take /home for example. That can be NFS, Samba and what not,
yet /home is the standard place.
/usr is another that can be placed anywhere and can even be ro.

Everything has a standard place in the hierarchy.

No, only the files concerning OS or applications need a standardized path.
Shared user data should be organized in a way that reflects the company's
/ organization's internal structure.


Very often I see that SUSE file hierarchy is different than others.
Like when configuring Apache. Many files are not in a standard
place. RTF Apache M is PITA when each and every file takes long times to
find.
IMHO widely used packages, de facto applications like Apache servers,
_should_ be standard in this sense. But they're not.

Generally you're right that differences between distributions make things
complicated without any bigger advantages but apache is a special case.
Nearly every OS has got its own "apache-FHS". It would be up to the apache
developers to decide for one. Instead there exists a webpage at apache.org
with a list of all possible places for Default-DocumentRoot, etc....

BTW: In practice it's often enough to set some symlinks if you move an
apache-installation to another OS.

--
Gruss,
Tobias.

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