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From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:32:13
Message-Id: 5221d3ad.O9MJsNHlF0ujyM9y%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo by Tanstaafl
1 Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
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3 > On 2013-08-31 1:10 AM, Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > > Sounds like an awful lot of trouble for a "problem" that's already solved by
5 > > installing sys-kernel/module-rebuild and running "module-rebuild rebuild"
6 > > after every kernel update, which is how nvidia, broadcom, and other
7 > > kernel modules are dealt painlessly with anyways...
8 >
9 > You must have missed the point that this is for *servers*, that most
10 > people *disable modules* on. I *know* that it is available as a module.
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12 Why, for security reasons?
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15 On Solaris, you can disable loading unsigned modules, is this not supported by
16 Linux?
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18 Jörg
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Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>