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Hm, not to be confused with the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs.html https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/

by yrro 3y ago

Hm, not to be confused with the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs.html https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs.html ... which is referenced in hier(7) https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/hier.7.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/hier.7.html ... which is itself referenced in file-hierarchy(7) https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/file-hierarchy.html https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/file... (which is the first place I look things up these days).

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jmclnx 3y ago
Isn't Red Hat/Fedora ignoring these standards ? I noticed /run is not even mentioned. I wish Linux would go back to what I consider a sane Hierarchy :) Similar to what OpenBSD has. These days seems Red Hat is deciding what the Hierarchy is instead of the community.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
  Fedora isn't the "community"?
  - taskforcegemini 3y ago
    it is run by RedHat, so no, not in this context
- da_chicken 3y ago
  About 2009 or 2010 I recall nearly every major distro saying they were going to ignore it, yes. It primarily existed so that Linux could mimic System V and/or POSIX, and that stopped being relevant as soon as software written for Unix migrated into software written for Linux.
  - wichert 3y ago
    It primarily existed to standardise paths between different Linux distributions. This, along with the LSB, was intended to make it possible to ship software that would work on all distributions.
    - SAI_Peregrinus 3y ago
      It did a pretty poor job of it though, since it made no attempt to separate distro software from third-party software (unless you count "shove everything 3rd-party in /opt and bundle all dependencies").
- nonameiguess 3y ago
  Do you mean in the FHS? /run is in there. It's runtime variable data, like /var but for data that doesn't need to persist between boots.

by yrro 3y ago

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jmclnx 3y ago

Isn't Red Hat/Fedora ignoring these standards ? I noticed /run is not even mentioned. I wish Linux would go back to what I consider a sane Hierarchy :) Similar to what OpenBSD has. These days seems Red Hat is deciding what the Hierarchy is instead of the community.

2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
Fedora isn't the "community"?
- taskforcegemini 3y ago
  it is run by RedHat, so no, not in this context
da_chicken 3y ago
About 2009 or 2010 I recall nearly every major distro saying they were going to ignore it, yes. It primarily existed so that Linux could mimic System V and/or POSIX, and that stopped being relevant as soon as software written for Unix migrated into software written for Linux.
- wichert 3y ago
  It primarily existed to standardise paths between different Linux distributions. This, along with the LSB, was intended to make it possible to ship software that would work on all distributions.
  - SAI_Peregrinus 3y ago
    It did a pretty poor job of it though, since it made no attempt to separate distro software from third-party software (unless you count "shove everything 3rd-party in /opt and bundle all dependencies").
nonameiguess 3y ago
Do you mean in the FHS? /run is in there. It's runtime variable data, like /var but for data that doesn't need to persist between boots.