On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 05:09 , mb/ext3@dcs.qmul.ac.uk wrote: > On Jan 29 Bill McGonigle wrote: > >> Has anyone been successful in getting the stock Redhat 7.2 kernel to >> run >> an ext3 partition in data=journal mode? >> >> I've set the option in /etc/fstab and made a new inital ramdisk, > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Why did you do this? Which volumes are you changing? > The goal is to convert an existing root volume (for syncronous NFS writes). From what I've read ext3 needs to know that the volume is data=journal, and it can't get that from the real fstab until it's too late, hence the initrd. If it was just my machine I'd recompile the kernel and be done, but I have to convert about 40 machines, all with disparate hardware. RedHat 7.2's kernel config seems to run on them properly and it's already been through our ISO process. Thanks, -Bill
