Re: ext3

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday mindspring com>]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Kalum / Grendel wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002,  Robert P. J. Day commented thusly,
> 
> > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Kalum / Grendel wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002,  Ian Timshel commented thusly,
> 
> > what *does* confuse me is that, while ext3 is the initial, default
> > choice for install, red hat still (to my knowledge) insists on leaving
> > ext3 functionality as a loadable module, rather than building it into
> > the kernel directly.  this has always struck me as inconsistent.
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong but I dont think the above is possible, what I
> mean is that ok if ext3 support is as a loadable module, then how on earth
> are you goint to mount the ext3 partition which contains the module to
> load the module, ie you get my point right?

first, the ext3 module is available in the initrd, which *does*
ship with the stock red hat.

more importantly, even if you have *no* ext3 functionality,
you can always mount an ext3 partition as ext2 -- it just doesn't
have the journalling running, that's all.

rday

p.s.  believe me, i flogged this pretty hard.  if you want to test
it, you'll notice that, as red hat ships, ext3 is a loadable module.
as an experiment, just omit the "initrd" line from the boot 
configuration.  it all still works.

Robert P. J. Day, RHCE, RHCI
Eno River Technologies, Chapel Hill NC
Unix, Linux and Open Source corporate training

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