Re: ext3 compiled-in vs module in FC4

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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


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