On 13 Jun 2011 17:24, "Julian Elischer" <julian_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 6/12/11 11:20 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >>> >>> On 6/12/2011 1:56 AM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: >>> >>>> Cutting modules out of the kernel in general does help speed up booting >>>> but loading those same modules later in the boot process will just lead >>>> you back to the same boot time. >>> >>> Loading modules via loader.conf is many times slower than doing it from >>> disk after the system is partially booted. (As in, 2-3 seconds per >>> module vs. nearly instantaneous for all 6.) >>> >>> I didn't offer my list as an example of what to do, I offered it as a >>> syntax example. I would of course expect people to use appropriate >>> discretion to load things in loader.conf that are necessary for boot. >>> (Of course, the fact that people can easily get this wrong is a strike >>> against the technique.) >>> >>> There is no point in having an _enable for this script because if the >>> kld_list is empty, nothing happens. >>> >> Doug's solution is what we have been using for a very long time! >> >> the loader.conf solution is not practical when it's shared among many >> hosts -like here where most of the hosts are dataless-, so, moving the not >> essential ones to rc.conf was the obvious solution. > > > what would be REALLY cool would be the ability to make loader.conf have some sort of conditional > clauses.. > > e.g. if MAC== 01:02:03:04:05:06 > blah > > Isn't it just a shell script?Received on Mon Jun 13 2011 - 15:00:07 UTC
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