Description of Feature: The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) states that there should be a /srv-directory. (See URL) In my opinion it would be really good if Fedora (and probably with it RedHat) would follow this recommendations for the following reasons. A machine is always either a server or a client. If the machine is a client all user specific files can be kept in /home. This makes it easier to a) backup all data at once and b) have all data on one partition. Which makes it easier to upgrade a machine (See Bug 150670 for more information about this). The same ideas should be applied to servers as well. My proposal is to go with something like this: /srv/<service>/<service specific sub-element(s)> E.g.: /srv/smb/share1 /srv/smb/share2 /srv/http/www.domain.com /srv/http/ww2.domain.com /srv/ftp/ftk.domain.com /srv/mail/user1 /srv/mail/user2 etc. Those are just an idea. Maybe /srv/http/domain.com/www would be better in order to preserve the tree structure of the DNS.
The current filesystem rpm package does contain /srv, so I am closing this report. Thanks, Florian La Roche