From: "pat" <pat@xvalheru.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:18:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070222091510.M12110@xvalheru.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702221108.31090.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
Thanks to all. Now it cleaner to me :-)
Only (probably) last question: If I want to play with the Xen I can compile
SATA support directly to kernel and it will be still OK ???
Once again thanks a lot.
Pat
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:08:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> On Thursday 22 February 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:50:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > But you are mostly right, around here in Gentoo-land it's become
> > > almost a guerilla rite of passage to be able to drop genkernel and
> > > roll your own (raid users excepted of course)
> >
> > Why? RAID support is as simple as selecting a couple of options in
> > menuconfig. Or were you thinking of LVM? That needs an initr* to use
> > it on /.
>
> hardware raid or software raid? A decent controller will just do
> raid and give you a b lock device to boot from. What about those
> stupid el-cheapo so-called raid controllers that are actually little
> more than bus adapters with four drives attached and you do the real
> raid in software? That will need an initr*
>
> > Dropping genkernel is almost always a good thing. If you roll your
> > own kernel, you will have a better understanding of what's going on
> > and what you need.
>
> Yes, very true. But genkernel is a useful interim measure to help
> get our users from using a binary blob kernel to successfully
> rolling their own.
>
> alan
>
> --
> Optimists say the glass is half full,
> Pessimists say the glass is half empty,
> Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be?
>
> Alan McKinnon
> alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
> +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 22:42 [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ??? pat
2007-02-21 23:16 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 0:08 ` pat
2007-02-22 0:25 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 0:41 ` pat
2007-02-22 10:07 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 7:45 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-22 10:08 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 10:56 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-02-22 11:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-22 18:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-02-23 7:11 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-02-23 9:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-02-22 0:13 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-22 0:29 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 0:39 ` pat
2007-02-22 1:50 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-22 10:08 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
[not found] ` <200702220958.49233.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
2007-02-22 10:08 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 7:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-22 8:14 ` Neil Bothwick
[not found] ` <200702221108.31090.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
2007-02-22 9:18 ` pat [this message]
[not found] ` <200702220411.04512.bss03@volumehost.net>
2007-02-22 12:02 ` pat
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