--liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline begin Andreas Dilger quotation: > On Feb 18, 2002 11:33 -0500, Joe Krahn wrote: > > Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > > > Did you compile ext3 as a module, and/or you are using an initrd? That > > > is the most common cause for mounting the root as ext2. > > > > This is on a plain, redhat-compiled kernel, which has ext3 as a > > module. No initrd, using GRUB bootloader. > > Well, ext3 can't mount a root filesystem if it isn't available at the > time the root filesystem is mounted. Either you need to load the ext3 > module from an initrd, or compile it into the kernel. While the on-disk > layout of ext2 and ext3 are basically the same, the kernel drivers are > separate, so it is not possible to remount an ext2-mounted filesystem > with the ext3 driver later on. Let me see if I have this straight: 1. Red Hat 7.2 uses ext3 as its default filesystem for new installations. (Do they also offer to convert ext2 --> ext3 when upgrading?) 2. Red Hat 7.2's standard vendor-supplied kernel images have ext3 as a module, and no initrd (or the initrd does not include ext3). Therefore: 3. Red Hat 7.2, without user customization of the kernel or initrd, will _never_ mount its root partition as ext3. Have I got that right? It seems rather lame. Craig --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8cokCTv3a2fa7g4sRAgapAJ0VAJkBD2WJ8QcaNz5ZW3Iwm5Ww8QCfQNsS XlH5+WX1Olj2owhIWMhVAng= =LJzM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr--
