On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:19:43AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > As a sysadmin /srv is a useful thing - it's what most sysadmins do > anyway - create a top level path where they mount the large, local disks > and put all their data. So they know on every system if they hit /etc > and /srv with the backups they'll have what they should be worried > about. All admins may not call it /srv but they do something like > it: /fs, /local, /data, /srv > > it's all the same result. > > so while your argument for not using it in the distro is fine -the > reality is that this is what is actually done by sysadmins all over the > world. +1 Thank you Seth. /var is transient data. There should be nothing there that needs backups. And users shouldn't look there for files they might edit. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
