[systemd-devel] systemd - move /selinux to /sys/fs/selinux - maybe remove /srv ?

[Christian Hesse]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:41:37 +0200 Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> W dniu 29 kwietnia 2011 04:09 użytkownik Jasper Boot
> <jasper.boot at gmail.com> napisał:
> > Hi,
> > 2011/4/29 Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> By the way, maybe it would be good to think about the meaning of /srv
> >> existance? For seven years FHS requires that this directory exists
> >> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE16A
> >> but "The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is
> >> unspecified as there is currently no consensus on how this should be
> >> done" - so even the authors of the standard did not have anything to
> >> say about how this directory should be used. Is there a rational
> >> reason for the existence of this directory besides FHS conformance?
> >
> >
> > For years now I've been using /srv to contain the content for the various
> > (world visible) services my machines run. Instead of having a mix of
> > /var/www/ /home/apache /home/httpd/ /var/lib/mysql/ /var/named/ and other
> > directories the different distributions come up with (usually somewhere in
> > /var), I've standardized on /srv/www /srv/svn /srv/git/ /srv/mysql and
> > /srv/dns for all machines and distros. Instead of just getting rid of
> > such a useful directory I'd rather see an effort to come up with a beter
> > standardization / description.
> > Because /var already contains a lot of other variable/transient data, e.g.
> > log, spool and temporary files, I like the fact that I can have another
> > hierarchy for 'content' data instead of 'variable run/state' data. In /srv
> > is the really important data I need to backup and restore; /var is just
> > variable data that is needed in a running system, but isn't that essential
> > and specific to my system. You could almost say that /srv is the
> > system-wide /home in my case.
> 
> Ok, so it has some use. For the purpose that you described I use
> "data" dir that is somewhere on other than / partition
> 
> $ ls /home/data/
> backup  mysql  pgsql  www
> 
> Probably I should use /srv for this, but this would mean that I need
> yet another partition.

$ mount --move /home/data/ /srv/

However I do use /home/data/ (for music, videos, etc...) and /srv/ (for www,
ftp, tftp, etc...) Perhaps I show think about unifying this.
-- 
Schoene Gruesse
Chris