From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>
To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: -xen config...
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:58:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A6764E.9060300@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A95E2296287EAD4EB592B5DEEFCE0E9D409DBF@liverpoolst.ad.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Ian Pratt wrote:
>> Is there any reason that ext2 is set as 'y' while ext3 is set
>> as 'm'? It seems to me that they (and the other 'common'
>> filesystems) should be the same...
>
> I agree this is pretty odd. The -xen config was based on one for a
> distro kernel, so I think it's standard practice.
Bootstrapping issue: suse did it that way because the initrd loading
driver and filesystem modules used to be ext2-formated ramdisk. These
days initramfs is used instead, probably suse comes with ext2 being
modular soon ;)
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-19 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-19 3:03 -xen config Ian Pratt
2005-12-19 4:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-12-19 8:58 ` Gerd Knorr [this message]
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2005-12-19 5:34 James Harper
2005-12-19 5:05 Ian Pratt
2005-12-19 3:14 James Harper
2005-12-18 23:58 James Harper
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