From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Re: Unable to get XFS, ext3, reiserfs & LVM to coexist happily Message-Id: <20020111093859.B30751@colombina.comedia.it> References: <200201020451.g024pPg00867@oss.sgi.com> <200201050212.TAA16774@cthulhu.turbolabs.com> <20020105142527.I12868@lynx.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from ahead@bigpond.net.au on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:21:26AM +1000 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri Jan 11 02:40:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:21:26AM +1000, Adrian Head wrote: > The problem now is that when I try to mount a ext3 snapshot using: > mount /dev/HDA/SNAP /mnt/snapshot > The kernel mounts the snapshot as ext2. Is was not happening before the > patch and I was wondering if anyone thinks this is a problem. As ext3 is > backward compatible with ext2 there doesn't seem to be any problems during my > testing with respect to standard file operations. I can mount the snapshot > as ext3 if I use: > mount -t ext3 /dev/HDA/SNAP /mnt/snapshot this depends on the order the mount porgram tries to autodetect a filesystem if the luser does not specify it. I don't have mount sources at hand but AFAIR it reads /etc/filesystems, /proc/filesystems and then tries an hardcoded list. you can modify /etc/filesystems to change the probe order. [you already got answers to the other issues] L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \