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

To: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2)
From: lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lennart Sorensen)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 09:31:58 -0400
Cc: Georgi Chorbadzhiyski <gf@xxxxxxxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, jfs-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, cluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:29:38PM +1000, Donald Douwsma wrote:
> 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.

Because they have always done it that way so it has to be right? :)

-- 
Len Sorensen


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