From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4648FFD2.3050609@paradise.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10705140848n41d13c0cy5225964032ecb480@mail.gmail.com>
Grant wrote:
> I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel.
> I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only
> enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the
> kernel at all.
>
> Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might be better
> to build every single module and let the system load them as it needs
A friend of mine does this for his production servers:
1/ builds the known needed things into the kernel
2/ disables loadable modules completely
This is probably not suitable for some use cases...(new raid card
...ooops... redo kernel), but if you are deploying to known hardware it
is ok.
Cheers
Mark
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-14 15:48 [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel Grant
2007-05-14 16:09 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-14 22:37 ` Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
2007-05-14 21:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-15 2:16 ` Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
2007-05-17 20:17 ` Grant
2007-05-14 18:18 ` Dale
2007-05-15 0:33 ` Mark Kirkwood [this message]
2007-05-15 1:57 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-15 7:21 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-05-15 19:49 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-15 20:06 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-17 6:38 ` Mark Kirkwood
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2007-05-15 0:54 burlingk
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