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

Lennart Sorensen
2008-05-13T13:31:39Z

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? :)

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Len Sorensen