[COLUG] Re: Sharing a kernel

[Stephen J. Smith]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 07:41, Josh Glover wrote:
> Quoth Stephen J. Smith (Mon 2004-06-28 11:35:35PM -0400): 
> > Hrm, when does the kernel load modules?  Would it be after partitions
> > listed in /etc/fstab have been mounted?
> 
> Nope, it must load at least the filesystem modules *before* /etc/fstab
> is considered.

I think the driver for the root filesystem is generally either built in
to the kernel, or is part of the initrd image and is loaded from there. 
When exactly any given module is loaded is still a mystery to me.  I
have tried sharing /lib/modules now, and I haven't noticed any problems
_yet_.  YMMV of course.

> The best way to handle this would be simply to mount the same partition
> on /usr/src/linux in each and run a 'make modules_install' on each.

That would definitely work, and it doesn't require much disk space
(~50M).  But it doesn't seem like it should be necessary.

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