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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-22  9:28 UTC|newest]

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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