Messages in this thread | | | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> | Subject | Re: The /tmp and modules_install saga | Date | Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:14:01 +0200 (MET DST) |
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"A month of sundays ago Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:" > > OK .. but they are being put in a non-variable part of the FS. It > > should not be used for temporary storage. /lib'd be mounted ro on my > > systems if it weren't for the fact that it's on the same partition as > > We're talking about 'make install_modules'. If /lib/modules isn't > writable, then how do you expect install_modules to work?
I don't expect to install modules on the same machine that I compiled them on, so I don't expect install_modules to work at all, and so I don't need to have /lib writable for any such reason! But I take the point. I didn't grok that the argument was about use of tmp for /install_modules/.
Talking about it offline with Alan, (a) I found out that the argument was about use of tmp in /install_modules/, not make modules and (b) I offered shell snippets to show that you don't need temporary files at all. You don't.
> -Mitch
Peter
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