Filesystem hierarchy standard 3.0 process begins

Posted May 5, 2011 15:56 UTC (Thu) by ssam (guest, #46587)
Parent article: Filesystem hierarchy standard 3.0 process begins

is there somewhere that gives the broad aims of the new version? what are the big complaints with the current one.

Are they going for something radical (like MacOSX or gobolinux). Or is it little tweaks?

Filesystem hierarchy standard 3.0 process begins

Posted May 5, 2011 16:09 UTC (Thu) by eMBee (guest, #70889) [Link]

i expect it to be little tweaks, add in all the current practices that have cropped up in recent years (like /run). the whole process has been pretty much dead for some time, and i am happy to see some attempts at revival to take shape.

greetings, eMBee.

Filesystem hierarchy standard 3.0 process begins

Posted May 5, 2011 16:17 UTC (Thu) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613) [Link] (2 responses)

From what I've read, the two issues promoting FHS3 are /run and /lib/<architecture triplet> (aka debian multiarch), though more changes may still be added to it.

Filesystem hierarchy standard 3.0 process begins

Posted May 6, 2011 4:33 UTC (Fri) by Kamilion (subscriber, #42576) [Link]

Also, the moving of /selinux to /sys/fs/selinux noted here:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-...

and backed by Greg KH

Filesystem hierarchy standard 3.0 process begins

Posted May 17, 2011 12:15 UTC (Tue) by wookey (guest, #5501) [Link]

I don't think multiarch has prompted this resurrection, but it is relevant. The timing is perhaps rather unfortunate in that regard. Multiarch is not a new idea (initially proposed in Debian in 2005 IIRC), but it has only just made it into real distributions (Ubuntu Natty release a week or so ago). That makes it rather too young to be adopted as something to mandate in the FHS. On the other hand if it's going to be a few years before we get another it'd be nice to have it as an option, or mentioned, or something.

We'll be bringing this subject up to see what people thing about it, but I imagine that at the moment most people's reaction to the multiarch stuff is that it is weird Debian/Ubuntu craziness, best ignored. Now in fact it's a powerful and useful concept which I hope will have a long and friutful life, but clearly it's too early to make big claims about how it will create cross-architecture nirvana in filesystem-trees.

Filesystem hierarchy standard 3.0 process begins

Posted May 5, 2011 16:18 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Follow that Bugzilla link and do a blank search there, selecting FHS as the product. That'll give you a page of issues people have logged so far. (Some are years old, but others are more recent.)