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Grant wrote: |
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> I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. |
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> I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only |
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> enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the |
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> kernel at all. |
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> Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might be better |
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> to build every single module and let the system load them as it needs |
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A friend of mine does this for his production servers: |
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1/ builds the known needed things into the kernel |
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2/ disables loadable modules completely |
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This is probably not suitable for some use cases...(new raid card |
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...ooops... redo kernel), but if you are deploying to known hardware it |
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is ok. |
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Cheers |
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Mark |
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