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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] [fhs-discuss] Informal Straw Poll for /srv and /media
  • Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:22:37 +0100

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:09:19AM -0600, Geoffrey Derber wrote:
> evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:
> >I like /srv too, and like someone else on this list I associate /media
> >with movies and music. In fact, when I first saw /media I thought "that's
> >a great idea: often the users on the same desktop system like to share
> >media, so have a public directory for it"... then I read what it was.
> >
> >However, I do see an advantage to being FHS compliant... programs might
> >look to /media/cdrom for instance, but then we could just symlink /srv to
> >/mnt and find it there.
> >
> >My vote then, for our default setup, is to add the /srv directory and use
> >it as intended, and symlink the /media directory to /mnt. That way we're
> >FHS compliant and users who are sticky about it and easily delete the
> >symlink or replace it with an actual directory. (Hmm... does that mean
> >that fstab should point to /media/cdrom by default?)
> >
> I thought this was more a vote as to what to recommend to FHS for the
> updated fhs standard?

It is a vote to see what distribution developers think about it. What we
do in SMGL after the fhs 2.3 has been released will take another
discussion.

> For me, I'm against the /media directory. I'm hesitant on the /srv
> directory.
>
> Geoff

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