On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 12:45, Reinhard Katzmann wrote: > > I guess you guys mixed up xfs (x file system) and xfs (X font server) ;-)
i hate when people do this. ...eh. > > > 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. ditto. i think XFS is as module in my currently installed cooker kernel and it appears to work just fine. matter of fact, since kernels >2.4.8, there's been a huge rise in stability & performance. probabely becuase of patch/upgrades to XFS. imho, i XFS is doing a good job as a filesystem here. i've yet to do a comparison between rieser & ext3. > 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 ditto. i think this has been the motto of mandrake since day one. mainly to deploy compatability with other users systems. i doubt that they'd drop something as useful as XFS -roger
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