Hi! On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:00:44PM +0100, Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 29 January 2002 17.41, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > Really "lots" of users? Well, you may need it, but for instance I don't > > have any ext2 filesystems, and also no ide stuff. But still these > > "drivers" are compiled into the kernel. For *me* it would be better if > > these were modules. I guess you guys mixed up xfs (x file system) and xfs (X font server) ;-) > It's not really the same thing, having ide and ext2 stuff compiled into the > kernel doesn't really hurt you, it's just some unused bloat that with todays > hardware prices isn't that hard to live with. As we need to have initrd images (according to my experience, I could not get a kernel to run without initrd.img including a older 2.4.17 kernel) we could have ide as a module (but currently it won't work, I tested this with a self-compiled kernel but only got problems). > If xfs get's removed it would hurt those who need it, but if it stays most > ppl wont see it and those who does with see a small bloatness, that isn't > very hard to live with. > And with this I think keeping xfs is the same as keeping most other things > (like the ide drivers), you'll keep the big userbase and only those that > really really want a 100% optimized system will notice. XFS (like ext3, reiserfs) can be a module without any problems as it gets integrated into the initrd image if it's not in the kernel automatically using mkinitrd. It is even officially unsupported according to the mails I received (at least with ext3, I don't think it's any difference with xfs). Booting from ext3 fs with ext3 as a module works fine on all the systems I have tested. The general kernel should IMO be as much modularized as possible (my kernel is a bit beyond 700K while the 2.4.8 Mandrake kernel was above 1 MB!) Regards, Reinhard -- Software-Engineer, Developer for Embedded Devices Project: Pertergrin, a role playing game system GnuPG Public Key available on request
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