[vox] A philosophical question about partitioning

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Mon Apr 18 15:15:12 PDT 2005


On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:08:31PM -0700, Bryan Richter wrote:
> var != shared. In fact, the FHS doesn't specify a /var/share. /var is designed for
> variable data files and "transient and temporary" files --- none of which applies
> to music. 

Yeah, that'd be  "ambient and contemporary" ;^)


I was going to mention this myself, too.  /var has always seemed like a
place where things are changing (rotating, getting deleted after a month,
etc.), so that doesn't shout "music collection!" to me. ;^)


-bill!


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