On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 23:26, Kevin McConnell wrote: > --- Tom Ball <Tom.Ball@Sun.COM> wrote: > > Has anyone been able to boot Red Hat 8.0 with an > > ext3 root device with > > it set to writeback mode? When I add > > bootflags=mode=writeback to my > > kernel line in Grub, the kernel panics because it > > doesn't recognize the > > option. > > Where did you read about the writeback feature? Can we > look at your grub.conf file? Have you tried putting > this in your grub.conf file? Here's the link: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs8.html?dwzone=linux Here's my grub entry: title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.8.0) - Home root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ rootflags=mode=writeback initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0.img As someone previously suggested, I also tried adding this information to /etc/fstab, with the same panic. BTW, the writeback option support is in (search for "writeback"): file:///usr/src/linux-2.4/fs/ext3/super.c and its use is in: file:///usr/src/linux-2.4/fs/ext3/fsync.c Thanks in advance for any pointers. Builds sure slowed down when I upgraded to 8.0, and I'm hoping this will improve things a bit. Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
