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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stability: FreeBSD, NetBSD, or Linux ?
Date: 9 May 1995 07:11:05 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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References: <ortegaD7puFE.Dp2@netcom.com> <3o6gj4$e1m@agate.berkeley.edu> <MICHAELV.95May6000810@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3olihh$9mp@dove.nist.gov>
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In article <3olihh$9mp@dove.nist.gov>, Robert Bagwill <rbagwill@nist.gov> wrote:
>
>Huh? The Linux File System Standard (FSSTND) is the most rationale and
>best documented hierarchy I've seen. I believe most Linux distributions
>have starting following it.
A published standard is no good if not everyone (the various Linux
dists, in this case) follows it. It is still evolving, borrowing many
ideas from several existing filesystem layouts and adds in some stuff
of its own, much like the rest of the OS itself.
>Is there an equivalent FreeBSD document? Hier(7) doesn't compare.
Why not? The FSSTND is more explicit than the hier(7) manpage,
specifying exact locations of binaries and offers explanatory notes
along the way. In any case, I imagine there *is* a document
describing the BSD filesystem hierarchy in detail (I just don't have
it handy).
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org