<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2658.2"> <TITLE>RE: [Linux-cluster] patch 2.6 kernel without modules</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > small as possible (the smallest Fedora/RedHat I could get by > stripping RPMs was still 650MB). wow, really? my more or less stripped RH4 is 163 RPMs and a footprint of ~350mb and that is with man pages and all the other junk in /usr/share. > I would like to work without kernel modules I'm with you there. however, I would suggest building a minimalist kernel with module support and putting all the standard things compiled in and using modules for extraneous stuff like GFS and cluster services. The reason is GFS etc are a moving target and it's a LOT easier to track the steady stream of bugfixes by just deploying new modules than it is to keep recompiling a full kernel. unless your webfarm is doing something unusual, NFS will be vastly simpler, easier, and probably a lot faster. I think recent Linux NFS is a much less sucky than it used to be. </BODY> </HTML>