Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:23:53 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 Message-ID: <3975C809.D690FC87@cup.hp.com> References: <33457.963991514@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> <39755F9B.30593B39@cup.hp.com> <20000719014747.A25515@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:58:19AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > First, could you put the files somewhere in the obj tree so that they > > > aren't lost in the case of a reboot on a machine which mounts /tmp in > > > volatile storage? > > > > I prefer to use /var/tmp in that case. There's a problem with multiple > > concurrent installworlds if you save the binaries in the shared object > > tree. > > /var/tmp is no good as it sounds like you'll be littering up that > directory. No, that's not the case. The problem is that if you have concurrent installworlds, then the current scheme is not guaranteed to create unique directories across hosts. And since /usr/obj is very likely to be shared among those hosts, it is therefore not the right place to temporarily save binaries. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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