Graham Leggett wrote:
Meaning you have to make /opt bigger, or on its own (large) partition. Note that a large FDS deployment will usually have to do a custom disk partition, in order to have the database files on a separate physical disk than the database transaction logs. For a small deployment, it may not matter.mj@xxxxxx wrote:One of the biggest strengths of this software is that it is completely self-contained, which allows much simpler troubleshooting, research and development of administration tools, and testing multiple versions. It is easier to see if a file is missing or has the wrong permissions, and fix it. It is easier to backup and restore. I could go on and on. When an entire network depends on the LDAP infrastructure, these type of things really matter.This is an argument for compiling critical binaries statically by default (something I wish Redhat would do with RPM, so that upgrading isn't such a mission), but as to the filesystem layout, having a non FHS package on the system means I must partition my system differently just for FDS, which isn't ideal.
So are you saying that in a typical FHS deployment, the /var partition is by far the largest, and is on a separate partition than /? If not, then it doesn't make any difference - /opt is just as "bad" as /var.
We will most likely not go the route of having two separate packages, one /opt layout and one FHS layout. This is just too much work to have to QA two packages for every OS/platform combination. It's also a lot of work for our documentation - it would either make the documentation really confusing by having to specify two different paths for everything, or create a lot more work by having two different doc sets. It seems the leading contender so far is to use the FHS layout for the "real" files, and have the /opt layout be mostly symlinks to files/directories in the FHS style layout.I think it would be ideal to include the option for supporting both standalone and FHS, to keep everyone happy.
Another option would be to allow the installer to specify the prefix. This is really frowned upon in RPM-land, but it may make sense for Fedora DS. You would get the FHS style layout by default, but you could specify /opt/fedora-ds as the prefix, in which case you get the FHS style layout underneath /opt/fedora-ds.
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