Re: ext3 and 2.4.x kernels

[Vinodh D Rajan <vinny tacitnetworks com>]

no you dont have to worry about it. Redhat up2date does upgrade your kernel 
painlessly from updates.redhat.com using kernel RPM and ext3 works pretty 
well as well.

- vinny


On Monday 29 October 2001 03:49 pm, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:
> Dear list readers -
>
> it was brought to my attention that during the upgrade of a server to
> rh7.2,
>
> and selecting the ext3 migration works well with 1 exception that i need
>
> verified if i could please. i heard that once you migrate to ext3, you may
>
> no longer do a kernel upgrade without downgrading to ext2 and then putting
>
> the kernel or AC kernel in place 'patched'. What i need to know is, once
>
> migrated, are we no longer able to use RPM to upgrade the kernel and still
>
> have ext3 work, as in no kernel panics on reboot?
>
> If thats the case, then i think i will downgrade to ext2, but my next
>
> question then becomes, how to do this within tune2fs??
>
> thanks for any insights into this issue.
>
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