RE: [PLUG] directory conventions

["Christian Hedemark" <chedemark@cc3.com>]

Tobias observes:
> AIX and Solaris both have no /home partitions by default. 

Calling AIX a UNIX is a stretch, too.  :-)  But that did always surprise
me about Solaris.

I've stretched the rules a lot myself by creating an /export filesystem,
and nesting /home inside of there.  So /home is really a symbolic link
to /export/home.  The only stuff I share via SMB or NFS goes under
/export.  Ideally, ftp stuff goes there too.  Neat way to tidy up all of
your shared data for backup purposes.  I know it isn't FHS compliant but
FHS does very little to endorse what to do with shared data, beyond
stuffing it in /home (and even *that* is considered "optional").

Keep in mind FHS wasn't around when AIX and Solaris were maturing.
Vendors *had* to do their own thing because there wasn't really a clear
standard.

FHS seems to be gaining strong support in the Linux camp, and it is my
sincere hope that other UNIX vendors will embrace it as well.

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