linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] On-demand Filesystem Initialisation

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Date:	Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:39:40 +0100
From:	"Tom Spink" <tspink@...il.com>
To:	"Tom Spink" <tspink@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] On-demand Filesystem Initialisation

2008/6/2 Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 03:51:53PM +0100, Tom Spink wrote:
>>
>> (resend to include CCs)
>
> What cc's? Still no xfs cc on it. I added it to this reply....
>
>> This (short) patch series is another RFC for the patch that introduces on-demand
>> filesystem initialisation.  In addition to the original infrastructure
>> implementation (with clean-ups), it changes XFS to use this new infrastructure.
>>
>> I wrote a toy filesystem (testfs) to simulate scheduling/allocation delays and
>> to torture the mount/unmount cycles.  I didn't manage to deadlock the system
>> in my tests.  XFS also works as expected aswell, in that the global threads
>> are not created until an XFS filesystem is mounted for the first time.  When the
>> last XFS filesystem is unmounted, the threads go away.
>>
>> Please let me know what you think!
>
> Why even bother? This is why we have /modular/ kernels - if you're
> not using XFS then don't load it and you won't see those pesky
> threads. That'll save on a bunch of memory as well because the xfs
> module ain't small (>480k on i386)....

Yeah, absolutely.  But if the filesystem is built-in, you can't unload it.

> Cheers,
>
> Dave.

Thanks for taking a look, anyway!

-- 
Tom Spink
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