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

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Message-ID: <20080513133158.GA7579@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 09:31:58 -0400
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Donald Douwsma <donaldd@....com>
Cc:	Georgi Chorbadzhiyski <gf@...xsol.org>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2)

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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