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On Wednesday 04 February 2004 1:37 am, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> What does /srv give us that /var doesn't? |
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Shrugs. Personally, I find it more convenient to mount /srv on a nice raid |
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array - or another large disk - and leave /var on the root filesystem or a |
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device that's local to the machine. And - as Robin's explained better than I |
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can - this approach really makes life easier on networked clustered machines. |
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I don't think that this is an example of the FHS doing against the way that |
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UNIX works - just going against the current habits on many Linux users. We |
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didn't call it /srv back then, but when I first started out as a system |
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administrator in the early nineties, when UNIX machines were normally |
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workstations clusted via NFS and NIS with a central server, I was taught to |
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do something very similiar. |
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It reminds me of how the hostname convention has changed over the last ten |
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years. Originally, hostname was just the hostname. Then the hostname |
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changed to be the fully qualified domain name. And now it's gone back to |
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being just the hostname ;-) |
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From what's been said so far, I think we should introduce the /srv hierarchy. |
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If we do, we should also agree on a mechanism for introducing new directories |
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under here, just so that there are no unfortunate clashes. And there would |
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need to be a migration/communication strategy to let our users understand |
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what we've done and what it would mean for them. |
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Does it need to go through the next manager's meeting? I can't attend these |
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meetings so if this is the process, I need someone to help with that. Or |
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should this be handled another way? |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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