On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:43:12AM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > FHS 2.3 specifies in > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM > to use /srv for "Data for services provided by this system", for > example /srv/www for web root. > In the policy, the section > 9.1.1(http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.1.1) > specifies that FHS 2.3 is mandatory, except for some exception, and > the use of /var/www isn't included in that list. > > Should we force all httpd:s to use /srv/www instead of /var/www, or > should an exception to the policy be added? Per > http://wiki.debian.org/Apache2LennyGoals it states that apache2 has > support for /srv/www, but it's still defaulting to /var/www. > Personally, I would be against such a change.
On some systems, I NFS mount parts of /srv (or all of it). Such is not the case for /var. That is, people know better than NFS mount /var. That guarantee does not exist, since by nature /srv should mountable by NFS (e.g., for a web cluster, or something like that). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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