Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 1999 08:54:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | "David L. Parsley (lkml account)" <> | Subject | Re: SGI's xfs going opensource |
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Hello,
> > As our press announcement said, XFS will be released in open source. > > That does not contradict/preclude its being structured as a loadable > > module. XFS is a pretty large file system (100k+ lines of code) and > > it wouldn't be reasonable for something that large to be statically > > linked with the kernel, as there are probably lots of applications > > and configurations that don't need its capabilities. > > No. Our kernels are configurable, so you can select what components > you want to have in your kernel. It is something that predates > modules. [So yes, even if ext2 is normally compiled into kernel, I can > select in config that I want it out, or I can select that I want it as > module. Please retain same options for xfs.] > > And you definitely _do_ want XFS compiled into kernel, because fs for > your / partition has to be compiled in. It would be very bad if I had > to have small ext2 partition there just for insmoding xfs, what do you > think?
The correct solution would likely be a minix formatted initrd. A bit of a pain, but certainly doable.
cheers, David
- -- David L. Parsley Network Specialist City of Salem Schools
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