Re: Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2)

[Georgi Chorbadzhiyski <gf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

FD Cami mumbled something about, On 5/13/08 8:51 AM:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:29:38 +1000
> Donald Douwsma <donaldd@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Georgi Chorbadzhiyski wrote:
> > > Hi guys, I know that not all kernel thread users are converted to
> > > start only when needed but the following is little annoying specially
> > > when I'm not even using jfs, xfs and gfs2.
> > >
> > > Look at the ps output from a standard distro 2.6.24.5 kernel after a
> > > fresh boot:
> > ...
> >
> > > Kernel config can be found here:
> > >   http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/kernels/hugesmp.s/config
> > Your distro is building all of these modules into the kernel.
> >         CONFIG_XFS_FS=y
> >         CONFIG_JFS_FS=y
> >         CONFIG_GFS2_FS=y
> >
> > This isnt exactly standard practice, normally they'd be set to =m and only
> > used if required to mount a filesystem. You may want to ask the slackware
> > people why they chose to do this for their hugexxx.s kernels.
>
> To be able to use those filesystems on root partitions without requiring
> an initrd. 
>
> Georgi might be interested to use the generic kernel instead of the huge
> one, it is available there :
> http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/slackware/a/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2.tgz

I'm well aware of this kernels but I prefer to not use
initrd when possible and still have most of the functionality
available.

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Georgi Chorbadzhiyski
http://georgi.unixsol.org/