Re: Modules question
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:21:22AM -0400, Seneca wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:46:27PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> > On 8 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > possible, right? Create an hourly cron job that does "rmmod -a",
> > > to eliminate any unused modules.
> >
> > If you do that, do modules get re-inserted as needed?
>
> I think it would depend upon the kernel. Early in the kernel config,
> there is a question about autoloading modules when needed. I haven't
> tried kernels without it, but whenever fat support is unloaded, if I use
> my floppy (all my floppies are fat), it's loaded.
It also depends on the entries in /etc/modules.conf . See:
kerneld-mini-HOWTO (available at http://www.linuxdoc.org) (a little outdated, but still very useful)
man modules.conf
man update-modules .
> (all my floppies are fat)
Hope they still fit into the drive ;-)
Regards, Joachim
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