On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:00:51PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > The ext4 filesystem is getting stable enough that it's time to drop
> > the "dev" prefix. Also remove the requirement for the TEST_FILESYS
> > flag.
>
> What do you think of adding a MODULE_ALIAS("ext4dev"); to this change?
>
> Poor Fedora users trying to boot a kernel with this rename and ext4(dev)
> on root are failing to mount root at boot time.
>
> mkinitrd looks at the existing fstab, sees that the rootfs is "ext4dev"
> and tries to mount root as ext4dev.... this fails.
>From discussion on the irc channel; the MODULE_ALIAS() allows the
filesystem to be loaded, but mount still tries to load the wrong
filesystem, and so it fails.
I guess one thing we *could* do is register both ext4dev and ext4....
maybe with a config option for backwards compatibility? And try to
wean people off of it as quickly as possible.
- Ted
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
