Re: Debian modules
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:38:22AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
>> "Rolling your own" shouldn't be an answer, it sounds more like an
>> excuse for bad design. I don't mind
>
> if by "rolling your own", you mean "compile your own kernel" then that is
> ALWAYS an answer.
The only problem with "rolling your own" is that when there is a kernel
update, or more importantly, a security fix, you then have to go back
through the build for each machine again. I only build special kernel's
when I have something that needs to work at max efficiency. That is NOT
the way to go for a bunch of servers. The tradeoff between kernel
efficiency and update efficiency is not worth it.
The only time it is worthwhile to "roll your own" is when you have a need
for something other than the lame 2.6.8 kernel, or when you have a machine
that will be running 99% of its resources and you want to give it one or
two percent more to play with.
>
> IMO, the stock debian kernels (actually the stock kernels for ANY
> distro) should be used for one thing and one thing only - to install the
> system with. then you should immediately compile a kernel configured for
> the exact hardware it's running on (plus a handful of common network
> card modules to make it easy to replace a dead nic with whatever you can
> get your hands on quickly).
>
> download the original linux kernel sources from kernel.org and use that
> - it's better than the crappy butchered debian kernel which has suffered
> greatly from cretinous ideological savagery.
>
>
>> rolling my own kernel for a home PC, but hundreds of servers with
>> differing hardware... what a waste of time.
>
> come up with a kernel configuration (or set of configs) which will work
> on all of your various servers. compile kernel packages using make-kpkg
> (in kernel-package) on your fastest machine and ship them out to the boxes
> where they are needed using scp. install with dpkg.
>
> it's not as difficult or as time-consuming as you think it is. in fact,
> using kernel-package, it's easy.
>
>> Even Redhat gives you a way to control which modules load, I can't
>> believe this isn't an option on Debian.
>
> of course debian gives you a way to control what modules are loaded. look
> at
> /etc/modules and /etc/modules.conf
>
>> Debian systems should honor /etc/modules, and *not* continue to load
>> everything else.
>
> /etc/modules tells a system what TO load, not what NOT TO load. see
> modules.conf for that.
>
> you want entries like "alias module_name off" for modules that you don't
> ever want loaded. see the docs for more details.
>
>
> craig
>
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