From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759306AbYEMIdS (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 04:33:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756952AbYEMIdJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 04:33:09 -0400 Received: from ns.unixsol.org ([193.110.159.2]:39243 "EHLO ns.unixsol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755618AbYEMIdI (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 04:33:08 -0400 Message-ID: <48295240.4030301@unixsol.org> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:33:04 +0300 From: Georgi Chorbadzhiyski Organization: Unix Solutions Ltd. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FD Cami CC: Donald Douwsma , xfs@oss.sgi.com, jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, cluster-devel@redhat.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , volkerdi@slackware.com Subject: Re: Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2) References: <4828CAC6.3090402@unixsol.org> <48292742.8090409@sgi.com> <20080513075107.2edc44d3@olorin> In-Reply-To: <20080513075107.2edc44d3@olorin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org FD Cami mumbled something about, On 5/13/08 8:51 AM: > On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:29:38 +1000 > Donald Douwsma 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. -- Georgi Chorbadzhiyski http://georgi.unixsol.org/