On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:33:33PM -0400, Tim Taranov wrote: > Hi - > > I was wondering why FC4 has ext3 as a kernel module rather than having > it compiled into the kernel? > > The reason I'm asking is because I encountered an issue with booting > FC4 from a raid volume with ext3 compiled as a module (the default > configuration) - the kernel would panic after not being able to mount > /. After I rebuilt the kernel to have the ext3 compiled-into the > kernel, the booting problem went away (my /boot and / are ext3-based, > running off a h/w raid controller based volume). > > I was using the default FC4 test 3 at the time - I haven't tried it > with the latest kernel, but I suspect the results may be the same. If your initrd is made correctly, it shouldn't matter which way its built. Dave