[NMLUG] Minimalist kernel

[bharat at cs.unm.edu (bharat krishnamurthy)]

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Andres Paglayan wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have couple of questions, just because your answers are much better than 
> google's
>
> I already know the basics of re-compiling a kernel, load the right modules, 
> and so on, but my kernels look as a big 14MB monkey, is there any how-to, or 
> documentation to read (besides kernel code), on how to compile a minimalistic 
> kernel for your system? so it has all it needs to run but nothing more.
>
> The other,
> I have little project involving a mini-itx via epia booting from a compact 
> flash card.
> I am trying to minimize the read write cycles on the card.
> for doing so I am enabling laptop-mode, doing logs in a ram disk (cp them at 
> boot and back at shutdown, still trying to figure this out), and I'd like to 
> adjust the commit interval in the ext3 from 5 seconds to something higher, 
> but: I don't know which file system will be recommended for a CF card; I

Try JFFS. Although I havent tried it personally it seems to be a good file 
system for flash cards. I have tried ReiserFS on flash and it works just 
fine.

B