On 2018-09-11 9:06 p.m., L A Walsh wrote:
On 9/11/2018 5:17 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Well no one is stopping you from changing that except yourself. If you were in the habit of building your own kernel, it would take almost no time at all -- just script all the manual stuff.
ROTFLMAO! yes, many of us did that a century ago. The whole point of the precompiled repositories and the build System is so we don't have to do that. We don't have to install GCC and a lot more, we don't have to do all that. Fine, so I have a kernel with a FS that I need to access my 2G /boot partition. Everything else is as a module. The less in the kernel, the smaller the initrd the faster the basic boot comes up. Oh, and I can patch/replace modules with a live kernel if I need to.
I have 1 script were I tell it what version to download.
You probably have a use-case where you need to go though all of that. Most of us don't. heck, not everyone is even as obsessive as me about keeping up to date with Kernel_Stable; most people live with the distribution kernel (I have that around somewhere too). I'm sure John or someone from Suse will tell us how the commercial system sticks with the distribution kernel and uses the module system to 'patch'. As JDD points out, even with a ext4 kernel, the opensuse distribution defaults to Btrfs for / and XFS for /home. It is possible some people who are commercial problem solvers might need to boot arbitrary kernels, but I imagine that they have 150G /boot and have never run /purge-kenels/ although they have run /zypper up --from kernel_stable/ every day, every hour, for the last ... ?decade? maybe people like them are an audience for your scripts. But this thread? I asked you about XFS in relation to this thread. Yes, Don, you can remove BtrFS and run Ext4 instead. Or you can run ResierFS, XFS or JFS. And, ah right, you have a SSD; there are a number of supposedly SSD-friendly file systems you could use. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org