Re: Raid 0 to 5

[Dr A V Le Blanc <nospam [at] mcc.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 01:21:07PM +0100, Richard wrote:
> On 03-Sep-99 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> I think this trend of the various distributions toward bloating
>> kernels through feeping creaturitis is a bad idea....
>
> Yes :-)
>
> Richard

This is a bit unfair. The problem is, the distribution kernel
has to work on more-or-less all systems. I, for example, have
a system whose filestore is (except for / and /var partitions)
on a multiple device, which speeds up performance significantly.
If they didn't include md in the standard kernel, I couldn't
upgrade the machine out-of-the-box.

Of course, I always recompile the kernel and strip out the junk
I don't need.

-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk

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