Re: Kernel Compile Question

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On Monday 10 February 2003 07:45 am, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 10 February 2003 05:36, Robert P. J. Day uttered:
> > if you want to use the "root=LABEL=/" label notation, then you 
need
> > to use the initrd, or build ext3 support right into the kernel.
> > if you're happy with the /dev notation, you're fine without it.
> >
> > once upon a time, i knew why this was true. :-(
> 
> Actually, this isn't exclusive to ext3.  Ext2 supports disk labeling 
too.  I 
> wonder, did you enable only ext3, and not ext2 in your kernel?  
Perhaps 
> e2label requires ext2 support to write out the label.  It would be 
odd, but I 
> wouldn't be too suprised.

IIRC, the ext3 module is really ext2 with journallng extensions and it 
handles both ext2 and ext3 filesystems.

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