"Ronald W. Heiby" wrote: > > Wednesday, April 17, 2002, 11:26:11 AM, Richard wrote: > > Please note that in my experience, ext3 doesn't work. When I upgraded my > > systems from RH 6.2 to 7.2, I tried to tell it to use ext3, the default, > > on several systems and each time was rewarded with a system that > > wouldn't boot. (I don't recall just what the errors were, > > unfortunately.) > > I had a related problem. I did a full install on a system which > installed ext3 filesystems by default. The system booted and ran just > fine. Because I wanted to use Partition Magic to resize partitions, > and it does not yet know about ext3, I converted all of the partitions > to ext2. The system refused to boot with a message (which I did not > write down) that implied that it was objecting to the root filesystem > no longer being an ext3 filesystem. For various reasons, we did a full > reinstall, so I do not know what a "kinder, gentler" fix might be. > > Ron. I had problems when I first tried ext3 - until I figured out (possibly read on this list) that the kernel I was trying to use had ext3 support compiled as a module. The kernel was trying to load the ext3 module off an ext3 file system it needed the module to read... The solution was easy. Simply compile ext3 - and any other filesystem you might want the kernel to boot from - directly into the kernel. My current project uses ext3 on "/boot" and "/" Raid-1 partitions (boots off the raid partitions so raid-1 support must also be compiled directly into the kernel, and the --omit-raid-modules option used with mkinitrd). I haven't had any problems I didn't create for myself. -- Kort E Patterson http://www.overalltech.net http://www.hevanet.com/kort
