[TriLUG] Configuring disks under Linux

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:20:12PM +0500, Tom Bryan spoke thusly:
> Believe it or not, I've run and maintained my boxes since 1998 without ever 
> mucking with/recompiling the kernel. :)  How do I check that support for it 
> is compiled into the kernel? 

Good deal, but sometimes, for advanced hardware that's not part of a
distro's tree yet, it's advantageous to use a semi-stable dev
kernel. In my case, I used the AC builds until Linus merged in the
full Hermes PCMCIA driver code. 

> work.  I hope never to have to track some specific version of the
> kernel tree

Well, you only ahve to track it until the feature you need from it is
merged into the main tree. 

In my case, I got hooked on ext3 durring the roswell beta. So now, to
use a stock kernel, the first thing I have to do is patch in the ext3
patches....

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