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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)NOT-FIXED
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:14:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906171814.12000.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090617164422.13858d1e@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 17:44:22 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > I never said you don't want hotplugging. Set rc_hotplug to  
> >
> > you said "automatic" hotplugging; is that something else?
>
> I explained that in my previous post, Alan was referring to desktop
> hotplugging, like mounting removable devices when they are connected, a
> completely different use of the same word.

The only reason I brought up a desktop system is that I've found Ubuntu to be 
a very reliable distro for finding out which *kernel modules* are actually 
needed - because it does convenient "automagic stuff" and does it right.

The fact that it's aligned around desktop users is of no significance here, 
but looking back, it would be easy to miss that bit.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-17  1:32 [gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)NOT-FIXED Maxim Wexler
2009-06-17  7:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-17 15:41   ` Maxim Wexler
2009-06-17 15:44     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-17 16:14       ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-06-17 16:46         ` Neil Bothwick

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