From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759034AbYEMNcP (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 09:32:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755029AbYEMNcA (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 09:32:00 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:56806 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753100AbYEMNb7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 09:31:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 09:31:58 -0400 To: Donald Douwsma Cc: Georgi Chorbadzhiyski , xfs@oss.sgi.com, jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, cluster-devel@redhat.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2) Message-ID: <20080513133158.GA7579@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <4828CAC6.3090402@unixsol.org> <48292742.8090409@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48292742.8090409@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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