[Fedora-directory-users] New filesystem layout for directory server and admin server files

[Richard Megginson]

Graham Leggett wrote:
> mj at sci.fi wrote:
>
>> One of the biggest strengths of this software is that it is 
>> completely self-contained, which allows much simpler troubleshooting, 
>> research and development of administration tools, and testing 
>> multiple versions. It is easier to see if a file is missing or has 
>> the wrong permissions, and fix it. It is easier to backup and 
>> restore. I could go on and on. When an entire network depends on the 
>> LDAP infrastructure, these type of things really matter.
>
> This is an argument for compiling critical binaries statically by 
> default (something I wish Redhat would do with RPM, so that upgrading 
> isn't such a mission), but as to the filesystem layout, having a non 
> FHS package on the system means I must partition my system differently 
> just for FDS, which isn't ideal.
Meaning you have to make /opt bigger, or on its own (large) partition.  
Note that a large FDS deployment will usually have to do a custom disk 
partition, in order to have the database files on a separate physical 
disk than the database transaction logs.  For a small deployment, it may 
not matter.

So are you saying that in a typical FHS deployment, the /var partition 
is by far the largest, and is on a separate partition than /?  If not, 
then it doesn't make any difference - /opt is just as "bad" as /var.
>
> I think it would be ideal to include the option for supporting both 
> standalone and FHS, to keep everyone happy.
We will most likely not go the route of having two separate packages, 
one /opt layout and one FHS layout.  This is just too much work to have 
to QA two packages for every OS/platform combination.  It's also a lot 
of work for our documentation - it would either make the documentation 
really confusing by having to specify two different paths for 
everything, or create a lot more work by having two different doc sets.  
It seems the leading contender so far is to use the FHS layout for the 
"real" files, and have the /opt layout be mostly symlinks to 
files/directories in the FHS style layout.

Another option would be to allow the installer to specify the prefix.  
This is really frowned upon in RPM-land, but it may make sense for 
Fedora DS.  You would get the FHS style layout by default, but you could 
specify /opt/fedora-ds as the prefix, in which case you get the FHS 
style layout underneath /opt/fedora-ds.
>
> Regards,
> Graham
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