Re: not mounting ext3, 2.4.10

[Craig Dickson <crdic yahoo com>]

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:50:36PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:31:54AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > > You cannot create an ext3 journal with 2.4.10 kernel.
> > 
> > It should be OK if the partition is unmounted, or if it is mounted
> > readonly.  If it's mounted readonly then you have to unmount it or
> > reboot afterwards: remounting it readwrite will undo the tune2fs
> > superblock update.
> 
> Yes, you are correct, you can create it on an unmounted fs.  However,
> it is NOT possible to create it on a read-only mounted fs, because
> it needs to be able to write into the filesystem to create .journal.
> To create a journal on root, you need to boot to another kernel (even
> one that doesn't support ext3 will work), or boot from a rescue disk.

Or just stick with 2.4.9 until it's fixed, which is what I plan to do.
I'm hearing enough about problems with 2.4.10, here and elsewhere, that
I don't see a reason to upgrade.

Craig