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Cleaning up the Filesystem Hierarchy
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One Line Summary
Greatly simplifying, securing, improving our traditional filesystem layout without causing major breakage
Abstract
We’ll talk about what changes to the traditional Linux file system hierarchy are needed to provide out-of-the-box support for read-only / or /usr file systems and stateless boots. How to implement complete separation of distribution/package installed and host-only/private files. Sharing of system images between containers/guests. Atomic system upgrades/rollbacks.
Lessons learned from: /System, /Users, /Cache, /Application from Android, MacOS, …
Tags
fhs, filesystems, standards
Speakers
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Lennart Poettering
Red Hat, Inc. -
Kay Sievers
Red HatBiography
Kay is working most of its time on linux hotplug related topics, hacks on udev, systemd, the device management code in the kernel, and a bunch of related projects.