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From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To: Jeff Licquia <licquia@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and FreeBSD
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On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:30:22PM -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> (Sorry if this isn't the proper list for this discussion.  If not, 
> please point me in the right direction.)

You may wish to query freebsd-arch@freebsd.org - freebsd-fs is more
aimed at filesystem implementation rather than how the directory
hierarchy is organized on top of the filesystem.  Moving FreeBSD to
a Linux Foundation FHS standard is something that strikes me as being
more an architectural discussion, and perhaps a CC to
freebsd-standards@freebsd.org.

However, I think the answers referring you to hier(7) is certainly
a starting point.  A glance at the FHS standard seems to
also place requirements on which files and/or programs are
in certain locations and also require certain config files
are called certain things, which goes beyond hier(7).

Regards,

Gary