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

Michał Piotrowski mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 08:26:11 PDT 2011


2011/4/29 seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>:
> On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 23:32 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:37:26AM +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>> > 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?
>>
>> Yes. It's where to put non-transient service data that does not belong to a
>> user, and does not belong to a package.
>>
>
> +1 - I think /srv is a good dir to have in place to encourage good
> practices for storing that kind of data.

I think it is very unlikely that the services will start to use /srv/
instead of /var/something because of the backward compatibility. I
create my own dir for data and it seemed to me that most people are
doing the same. Thats why I wondered if there is any use for this dir.

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