Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Yrjö Hatakka" <yrjo.hatakka@×××××××.fi>
To: "Thomas M. Beaudry" <k8la@×××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout 1.8.2 breaks lvm
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:16:23
Message-Id: 200208271920.37871.yrjo.hatakka@pp.inet.fi
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout 1.8.2 breaks lvm by "Thomas M. Beaudry"
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4 On Tuesday 27 August 2002 07:12, Thomas M. Beaudry wrote:
5 > Question out of curiosity:
6 >
7 > Why do you have lvm support compiled as a module? To me it doesn't buy
8 > you any advantages that I can see and has a few disadvantages. Such as
9 > every module that has to be loaded increases your boot time by a small
10 > amount, more to possibly go wrong with a module, and I understand that
11 > modules are a security risk. Since it has to be loaded all the time
12 > anyway, seems to make more sense having it inside the kernel.
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14 No particular reason, I have just used to compile everything as a module that
15 can be. Bad habit perhaps :)
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