Re: Where to locate repos (on *nix)

John Karp wrote:

> The FHS standard you link to mentions /srv, which seems an
> appropriate parent:
>
> "/srv contains site-specific data which is served by this
> system.

Cool! Sounds vaguely familiar. Here's the link:

    http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM

And it even mentions '/srv/cvs' as an example. Furthermore, it
sounds like /srv's substructure is pretty well open/anarchic.
Wonder when it came about. Seems like a necessary afterthought,
similar to /opt.

Kris wrote:
> IMO a more important factor is where you have enough disk space
> to support the repositories you want to host. For example, if
> you've got a great big expanse of disk mounted at /bigdisk, you
> might want to use /bigdisk/svn if you're going to be storing
> virtual machine disk images.

Great point. That's how I ended up with /localdisk/svn in one of
my prior setups. Sounds like now I'll settle on something like
/srv/svn/[public] (thanks Karl for the public vs private
thought).

In practice, FHS is often disregarded, at least in the labs I've
been around. But I do like that the standard exists, and I for
one will try to follow it.

Thanks for the insights everyone.

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