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Re: Majordomo and few things .



On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Tuvik Beker wrote:

> May I ask what you need THIS information for?!?! Compile it with the
> options YOUR system needs, not with what THEY thought you might need.
> Loadable modules are nice, but have many disadvantages, and I find it
> much wiser to compile a custom kernel per machine.

   I would take that recommendation with care. There are a few things one
wouldn't want to hardwire in the kernel, and those are things that are
being regularily updated, like SCSI controllers drivers and ethernet cards
drivers. 
   It's fairly easy to recompile a new module for your ethernet card (like
for example, the 3c59x.c 3com driver that is constantly updated), then
rmmod the old one, insmod the new one, reconfig the routing table, and
you're back and running in say, 20 seconds. This is critical for servers
that have many users on them, or are involved with lots of networking. You
wouldn't want to reboot a server that carries 100 users, but you could
change the driver, and all they would notice would be a short delay. 

   I do agree that some stuff should be hardwired, but one has to bear in
mind all the aspects of the machine involved.

--Ariel

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