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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!recepsen.aa.msen.com!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: File hierarchy (was Re: Linux or FreeBSD) Date: 18 Sep 1995 22:40:17 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <43klfh$2sg@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <409iah$inf@galaxy.ucr.edu> <43diee$djf@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> <43h7mv$c0@lugnut.stu.rpi.edu> <43hs27$8oc@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> wrote: >The one thing that's typically bothered me about the Linux filesystem >layout standard is that it's too specific (at least the last one I saw). >What makes more sense if a document outlining what you get when you >put `/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin' in your path, etc. ...and to add one more point: one thing i've probably liked most on (4.4)BSD's hierarchy is that there are no bloody binaries under /etc. (Ok, a symlink to rmt(8) which is needed to satisfy the rmt "proto- col".) This really allows to grep through all the files in /etc, and the backup of /etc easily fits onto a single floppy, saving all the per-system configuration. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)