Preferred directory structure for shared multimedia files

Craig cs007fc at wowway.com
Sun Oct 17 17:36:43 UTC 2004


Nick Pierpoint wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 17:53, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 05:19:19PM +0100, Nick Pierpoint wrote:
>>
>>>Predictably enough, instead of starting with a sensible practical issue,
>>>the issue that's really getting to me is under what directory structure
>>>to keep the repository?
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>Basically trying to follow FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs):
>>>Currently its all under /opt/media so you'll understand my predicament.
>>>/usr/share/multimedia: seems to fit best with the FHS
>>
>>If it's part of the OS (managed by RPM), then yeah. Otherwise, you're
>>probably best off with /usr/local/share/whatever. That's pretty much the
>>point of local.
> 
> 
> good point.
> 
> 
>>Another FHS 2.3 option would be /srv/multimedia, since your purpose is to
>>share this data out over some network protocol.
> 
> 
> Haven't come across the /srv option before. Appears to be a sensible
> place - also appears to be better suited to ftp and http directories
> than the traditional /var/ftp and /var/http
> 
> --
> nick
> 
/srv is new and that's the point of having it. I do think that the /srv is for server-related files, etc. 
This case is more like a network share.

my $.02


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