Re: ext3

[Kalum / Grendel <kalum delrom ro>]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002,  Robert P. J. Day commented thusly,

> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Kalum / Grendel wrote:
>
> first, the ext3 module is available in the initrd, which *does*
> ship with the stock red hat.

Ahh....I see, I am running my own kernel without any initrd hence my
dilemma, I see it all now, how stupid of me :-)

> 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.

Except....you can not mount a ext3 as a ext2 if there has been a
unsafe shutdown, ie it has not been unmounted properly, like for example a
power failure. In this case you cannot mount it as a ext2 until you have
run the fsck/mounted it as ext3 to flush the journal data.

> configuration.  it all still works.

Except in the above situation, the ext3 docs themselves mention it.

Best Wishes,
Grendel


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