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[Robert Steinmetz AIA <rob AT steinmetznet.com>]

3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Robert Steinmetz AIA wrote:
>  
>
> > I believe the smbfs support is enabled in all standard 
> > Slackware kernels.
> >    
>
> I don't think so.  I've just booted the bare.i bzimage
> from Slackware 7.1 and done:  cat /proc/filesystems
> ----------------
>        ext2
>        minix
>        umsdos
>        msdos
>        vfat
> nodev   proc
> nodev   nfs
>        iso9660
> nodev   devpts
> ---------------
> No sign of smbfs.
>
> Then I did:  insmod smbfs   (it installed OK) 
> Now /proc/filesystems shows: 
> ----------------
>        ext2
>        minix
>        umsdos
>        msdos
>        vfat
> nodev   proc
> nodev   nfs
>        iso9660
> nodev   devpts
> nodev   smbfs
> ---------------
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>  
I guess I should have checked before writing. The config files in Slackware 
7.1 indicate that smbfs is a loadable module.

CONFIG_SMB_FS=m

Note that one of the file systems listed in your running kernel are also 
listed as loadable in slack 8;

CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m

It is possible to eleminate support completely, I'm not sure there is any 
advantage in doing that. Minix support seems unecessary. There may be other 
loadable file systems which might be unecessary and may save some kernel 
memory, smbfs woudl I think be very useful.

--

Rob