On Fri, 2001-09-14 at 09:26, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > retry "mkbootdisk" with it. With XFS, I'm not sure it would suffice, but
> > we can pray (and now I can't do anything else than asking we switch from
> > the Linux kernel to a less bloated kernel if any).
>
> russel for initrd can we remove the pagebuf module and load it after ?
No pagebuf is the linux I/O part of XFS.
It is a complete rewrite of the irix I/O routines for linux.
One idea that has floated around in my head for a while is
to modularize the dir code.
XFS has 2 directory formats dir1 and dir2, dir1 was the original format
that had several performance drawbacks, and such was rewritten (dir2)
By default mkfs.xfs on linux is set to use dir2, but the dir1 format
is still supported for compatibility with older irix filesystems.
If the dir1 code was separated out and made a LKM an thus only
loaded for the rare cases of FS migration it might reduce the
footprint of XFS.
But I have no idea how much space it would save... it's just an idea.
-Russell
