File Systems.

H. Peter Anvin hpa at transmeta.com
Mon Mar 20 11:07:46 PST 2000


Erik Troan wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 
> > > > Umm... RedHat has a funny hybrid between FHS and FSSTND.  Right now I
> > > > would say it's more FHS than FSSTND, so if I were you I'd seriously move
> > > > to FHS all the way with RedHat 7.0.
> > >
> > > Yeah, that's probably more accurate. We've been slowly moving, but I doubt
> > > we'll do anything dramatic before the LSB-final version of LHS is issued.
> >
> > Considering Red Hat's market-leading position, I think it's fair for
> > LSB to ask Red Hat to lead a little more aggressively than that.
> 
> You want us to move to a file system that isn't ready yet? We'll move to
> the LSB-final filesystem when it's ready. We're not going to move to a
> filesystem standard which is still subject to change.
> 

The FHS has been in final form for a long time.  I presume you mean that
it's just not worth the effort changing now if you believe LSB will
change the FHS (which I don't believe it will, but...)

	-hpa



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