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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:58:42 -0400
Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:14:13AM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
> > /var isn't just for temporary files. It is all local writable data.
>
> /var/home, eh?
>
> > Some of it is temporary and doesn't need to be backed up. Some it
> > is your most critical data and better be backed up.
>
> And there's the problem. That's a huge flaw.
>
> Worse, some of it is very space-consuming temporary data which should
> never be backed up.
Not that I'm anyone of note, but I do teach Linux to lots of people every
year. Most are from medium to gargantuan companies (including most of the
Global 200/Fortune 500/some-other-third-self-important-category). I would
say that at least 50% of my students (and their organizations) move things
to /srv/ for the very reason of separating the "important to back up and
keep" stuff from the "transitory, if we lose this its OK" parts.
I put things like web, FTP, named and database under /srv/ and it does
make life easier on a day-to-day basis. Some people might not think it
would be easier for them. That's fine, let them use whatever other
location they want. Seth was right though that many people create
something even if they don't call it/use /srv/ as the path.
Personally, I would like to see things like web, FTP, email, database,
etc. that use /var/ currently be split out into /srv/. I understand that
the FHS makes things confusing about some items. Either way, we defiantly
don't want to get rid of something like /srv/ (even empty) that so many
people find so useful. Sure, I can recreate the directory, but it's
better to have a standard location so that we don't have everyone doing
their own thing outside what the distribution provides in the first place.
I might even go so far as to suggest that Fedora "officially" state that
the /srv/ directory is meant for stuff you care about (please, don't ask
me right now for final verbage).
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If it's not needed/used by the system remove it PERIOD!
Is Fedora hatching M$ admins now if it's not there for them
they cant create it, let the admins or the people that use it
manually create the directory. just in case
admins have forgotten it man mkdir ....
****sight****
Best regards
Johann B.