On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 02:51 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 22:42 +0100, Peter Feuerer wrote: > > Anyway, my question was not about finding a way to replace the initrd. > > I > > asked if it would be possible to add ext2 into the standard kernel's > > config of archlinux again. Through many ppl use ext2 anyway, e.g. for > > their /boot partition. And the driver is not that big (the module is > > 74k). I do understand, you don't want to have every little driver in > > the > > kernel, but come on, ext2 is a very common filesystem... > > Ext2 is a dead filesystem and has been replaced by ext3. We don't have > use for any filesystem in our kernel, as our kernel doesn't need any > filesystem driver to boot. > Adding ext2 as static configuration option will bring up the next > question: "I don't want to use initcpio, I want to have <insert random > filesystem> built in the kernel". kay, thanks.
