Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265680AbUFYMQN (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:16:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265548AbUFYMQM (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:16:12 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net ([204.127.202.56]:5596 "EHLO sccrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264821AbUFYMPa (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:15:30 -0400 Message-ID: <40DC1757.80405@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:15:19 -0400 From: David van Hoose User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Helge Hafting , John Richard Moser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please References: <40DB605D.6000409@comcast.net> <40DBED77.6090704@hist.no> <40DC0CE0.6040509@comcast.net> <20040625114105.GA28892@infradead.org> <40DC1192.7030006@comcast.net> <20040625121023.GA29274@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040625121023.GA29274@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1347 Lines: 39 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:50:42AM -0400, David van Hoose wrote: > >>yeah.. Really. Here's what I do. >> >>I have ext3 partitions, so I decided if they are different partitions, >>then I can compile my kernel with ext2 as a module and ext3 builtin. >>So I do it and reboot. Panic! Reason? Cannot find filesystem for the >>root partition. >>The error is in the kernel itself either way. Pick your reason. >>1) ext3 is identified as ext2 on bootup. >>2) There is no fallback to ext3 if ext2 is not found. > > > Doesn't make sense. The kernel just tries all registered filesystems > for the rootfs until one clames it. It means you either: > > - don't actually have ext3 in the kernel or > - the filesystems actually is ext2 and not ext3 > > Try calling debugfs /dev/$ROOTDEVICE and then typing features, what does it > say? [root@bahamut root]# /sbin/debugfs /dev/sda2 debugfs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) debugfs: features Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super debugfs: quit [root@bahamut root]# Is that sufficient for you? Regards, David - 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/