Specialized kernel/base system for VM's/VE's

2012-09-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is anyone currently working on optimized/minimized kernel and base packages for VM's ? My goal is having a really minimized base system for VMs and VEs, which don't have anything that's really needed there (eg. VEs dont need all the kernel related stuff, VMs just only those parts

ext4 recovery/deleted orphans on reboot...

2012-09-24 Thread Daniel J Blueman
In Ubuntu 12.10 pre-release, I've frequently been observing ext4 recovery has been needed after reboot [1]. This clearly isn't expected, however could be a side-effect of eg incomplete flushing after unmount before the ACPI/cf8 reset vector is hit. So, is this thought to be a kernel issue or

Re: ext4 recovery/deleted orphans on reboot...

2012-09-24 Thread Evan Huus
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Daniel J Blueman dan...@quora.org wrote: In Ubuntu 12.10 pre-release, I've frequently been observing ext4 recovery has been needed after reboot [1]. This clearly isn't expected, however could be a side-effect of eg incomplete flushing after unmount before the

Re: Specialized kernel/base system for VM's/VE's

2012-09-24 Thread Nicolas Michel
Hello, I don't think you'll see a that lightweight kernel in distributions like Ubuntu. But saying that, you probably don't know how the Linux kernel work: most of the functions of the kernel (except core functions) can be compiled directly into the kernel or compiled as a module. Distributions