Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:30:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:30:56 -0500 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:27581 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:30:56 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: ext3 clings to you like flypaper Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:40:56 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <78320000.1045465489@[10.10.2.4]> <1045482621.29000.40.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> <2460000.1045500532@[10.10.2.4]> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1045557656 31828 212.34.181.4 (18 Feb 2003 08:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:40:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2003 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1116 Lines: 24 "Martin J. Bligh" writes: >And in answer to some other questions: >This machine can't boot off CD, so rescue disks are not an option. >It's remote anyway, and I shouldn't have to screw around with it to do this. >I'm not using initrd >The point remains, if I say I want ext2, I should get ext2, not whatever >some random developer decides he thinks I should have. Worst of all, >the system then lies to you and says it's mounted ext2 when it's not. Don't compile any FS into the kernel. Load ext2 from an initrd. root fs mounts as ext2 and you're happy. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/