> What ongoing maintenance would a file system standard require? A successful standard of that type would have to remain static unless there was a serious issue to address. Regular changes are what the standard was intended to combat in the first place.
It's 2025, anything that wants to be considered modern (and everything should want that), needs to be undergoing constant change and delivering regular "improvements."
>>...though there is a slow-moving effort to revive and revise the standard as FHS 4.0, it has not yet produced any results.
> So it is not abandoned then. A slow moving process is exactly what you would want for the maintenance of a file system standard.
The FHS people to get off their butts. There's no excuse for that pace now that we have such well-developed AI assistants. They should be pushing quarterly updates at a minimum, and a breaking change at least every year or two. It's been obvious for decades that "etc" is in urgent need of renaming to "config", "home" to "user", and "usr" to "Program Files" to keep up with modern UX trends.