FHS 2.3: Addition of /srv and /media
The DebianWeeklyNews reports that the new version of the FilesystemHierarchyStandard is proposing the addition of /srv and /media as top level directories. It seems that /srv (for service I assume) is designed to take over from /var as the official place for human generated application data (eg. /srv/cvsroot, /srv/www, /srv/ftp) while /media takes over from /mnt as the place where you mount removable media (eg. /media/cdrom, /media/floppy).
I'm ambivalent about /media (and dislike the name) but /srv would be a wonderful addition, please yes! Now I can finally put the horrible /opt, /var, /usr/local mess to be and dedicate all my spare drive space to /srv instead of /var where there's contention when /var/log blows out. Of course it does introduce some possible big changes, do /var/mail and /var/spool/lpd migrate to /srv? Or what about /var/spool/cron? Or are those "not human generated" enough?