Re: Tough question for oracle DBAs/Solaris Admins. Log shipping.

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Tim Bradshaw wrote:

> Rich Teer wrote:
>
> > That's one valid way of doing it, but wasteful of memory resources
> > if drivers for devices one rarely (if ever) uses are compiled in.
>
> I can imagine circumstances where the driver wasn't even on the system
> at compile time (whenever that was). I'm not sure I've done this, but
> I can easily imagine something like (on Solaris):
>
> pkgadd <package-with-driver-for-device>
> ... add device, cfgadm, load driver etc ...
>
> I certainly don't see why that should not work - Solaris is an
> enormously dynamic OS.

Right; and I think that that is a pro for Solaris.

Or, to put it another way: I don't want to have to recompile (or relink) my kernel just because I've added a new device.

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