[Cluster-devel] Re: [Jfs-discussion] Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2)

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:21:56AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Well, we could refcount the number of active xfs instances and
> start/stop the global threads based on that.  Not really worth my
> time IHMO, but if someone comes up with a clean enough patch it should
> go in.

Actually doing it in the VFS might be even better.  Add ->init and
->exit methods to struct file_system_type and then the filesystems can
move most of module_init/exit into the new methods.