On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 03:28, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 5/1/19 2:24 AM, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 17:29 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 01:12:43PM -0400, Robert Marcano wrote:
>>> On 4/30/19 11:45 AM, David Howells wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I need to install a directory (/afs) that will be a mountpoint that a
>>>> systemd
>>>> service (also installed in the rpm) will mount upon.
>
> I seem to remember you can't create root level directories from a
> program either.
Well, creating root level directories actually is prohibited by the FHS
ever since it exists, because root level directories are standardized
(barring the fact, Fedora/RH diverged from these rule on many occasions).
That said /afs is nothing but a - though being not uncommon - a local
convention, among many others (e.g. /com, /srv, ...).
And I think we have covered all the talking points from every previous argument.
For: We have been doing this since the early 1980's
Against: The FHS says you can't do it
For: The FHS hasn't had an update in 15 years and hasn't approved a change in almost as long. The committee is a dead parrot.
Against: It's not dead, it is merely resting.
.. queue rest of Monty Python scripts ..
We are merely going through the same arguments which really started decades ago about arguments about AFS or NFS or...
Stephen J Smoogen.
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