Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and NetBSD

[markucz%gmail.com@localhost]

> Current NetBSD's practice - even my idea of current NetBSD's :) -
> differs significantly from BSD, though.  Looking at 4.0.1's hier(7):
> 
> - /COPYRIGHT has not existed on any NetBSD installation I can recall.
>   While I don't have any running to check, I can't recall seeing it on
>   real BSD either.  In fact, I don't recall seeing it on any system
>   ever, though of course I've hardly tried them all.
I've seen it on FreeBSD 4.x, about the time when NetBSD 1.5 was current, and
on 4.4BSD too.

> - Numerous directories are new in NetBSD as compared to real BSD.
>   While I don't have an accurate reference at hand, I would suspect
>   /libexec, and /var of being new.  I'm quite sure /rescue, /usr/X11R6,
>   /usr/lkm, /usr/pkg, /usr/pkgsrc are.  (X11 wasn't up to R6 yet back
>   when Berkeley was still releasing - I even think X might have still
>   been at X10 - and it didn't have LKMs at all, nor anything
>   pkgsrcish.  And /rescue is new compared to even older NetBSD; 1.4T
>   doesn't have it.)
The /libexec and /rescue abominations appeared together when some enlightened
souls decided that statically linked /bin and /sbin were obsolete. /var dates
back to 4.4BSD or maybe 4.3BSD-Reno.

Best regards