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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: 25286@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25286: cow-store destroys /tmp
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 21:44:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1g5chtt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161228161722.GA11931@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Wed, 28 Dec 2016 17:17:22 +0100")

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> 1. Boot from an installation-os image.
> 2. cp /etc/issue /tmp
> 3. ls -l /tmp    [observe that /tmp/issue exists]
> 4. mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt
> 5. herd start cow-store /mnt
> 6. ls -l /tmp  [observe that /tmp/issue has dissappeared]

Indeed, ‘cow-store’ bind-mounts /mnt/tmp (or whatever the target mount
point is) to /tmp to make sure we have enough disk space if we need to
build things.  This was done in commit
0adabad72d58492f08975af0b6b837ebde32a51b in response to a bug report.

Is it a problem for the installer?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-02 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-28 16:17 bug#25286: cow-store destroys /tmp John Darrington
2017-01-02 20:44 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-01-02 21:13   ` John Darrington

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