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From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: -xen config...
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:58:54 +0100
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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