[fhs-discuss] bug 98 - How can a UNIX newbie easily come to know more about the FHS while INSIDE the fs?

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue, 17 May 2011 17:16:25 +0200
Martin Baehr <mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:01:21AM +0200, Martin Baehr wrote:
> > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:47:41PM +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
> > > This man page describes how /export is used under FreeBSD/SunOS:
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=filesystem&manpath=SunOS+4.1.3
> > 
> actually, the above is only the old SunOS, more relevant are
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&manpath=NetBSD+5.1
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&manpath=OpenBSD+4.7
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&manpath=FreeBSD+9-current
> 
> i get the impression however that compared to the FHS these documents
> are much more descriptive and not prescriptive. they simply document
> the existing structure and don't set rules.

Sorry to tack another thread into this. Looking at those pages made me
wonder if a heir (or filesystem) man page shipped (in lsb? somewhere
else?) would be an appropriate way for us to try and resolve 98.

http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98

thoughts?
thanks,
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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