Re: Persistent module storage - modutils design

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 07:45:42 EST


Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> said:

[...]

> I have not decided where to save the persistent module parameters. It
> could be under /lib/modules/<version>/persist or it could be under
> /var/log or /var/run. I am tending towards /var/run/module_persist, in
> any case it will be a modules.conf parameter.

/var/lib/persist/<version>/<wherever-the-module-is-in-/lib/modules/<version>/>

or some such. It has to match the kernel version somewhere (in case module
interfaces change), and it also should mirror the tree under
/lib/modules/<version> if for no other reason that there might show up
several modules named <foo>.

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