Re: The /tmp and modules_install saga

Peter T. Breuer (ptb@it.uc3m.es)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:14:01 +0200 (MET DST)

"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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