On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:57:21 -0500
Eric Sandeen <sandeen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I would like to ask feedback on this list, with the goal of getting
> these changes made to fedora 10 asap to then get a wider audience
> input to see if anything breaks.
>
>
> Category 1: Always loaded anyway
> --------------------------------
> Rationale: Since we load these always anyway, why bother making it
> modules
> - ata_generic, pata_acpi
> - libata
> - sg, sd_mod, scsi_mod
> - ext3, jbd, mbcache
One minor thing, when I'm debugging ext3 in a fedora kernel it's
awfully nice to boot on a non-ext3 root and then be able to
load/unload test ext3 modules. That's a little whiny of me; of
course I can just rebuild the kernel with ext3 modular for testing
but sometimes it's a very quick way to be able to troubleshoot on a
particular kernel if necessary.
I understand your point. the contrast to this is the easy of debugging
(being able to turn oopses into source+asm crash views etcc) and the
reliability thing of being able to still boot and mount / when you end
up with a b0rked initrd etc.
As an even more minor thing not *everyone* uses ext3, but I guess
99.9% of the Fedora universe is close enough. :)
those who use xfs and the like often have a /boot that still is ext3 ;)
but yeah even the 99.9% is enough..
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