Re: [reiserfs-list] Boot failure: msdos pushes in front of reiserfs

Oleg Drokin
2002-01-17T06:39:00Z

Hello!

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:47:12PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Looking at init/main.c and fs/super.c, rootfsflags parameter is never
> > saved, moreover - it's original value is destroyed, once initrd fs is
> > mounted. And I only see not very nice ways of fixing this, so perhaps
> > someone more exeprienced can come up with the solution? (my crappy
> > ides is not to do putname() on fs_names, if (real_root_dev !=
> > ROOT_DEV), all of this is only when CONFIG_..._INITRD enabled)
> Thanks for confirming a bug, so I understand that mounting an initrd
> loses the rootfsflags, and as the actual root= parameter is kept over an
> initrd boot, it should also be possible for rootfsflags= -- can the
> rootfsflags maybe be saved along with the root= parameter?

No. rootfsflags is saved. What is not saved is rootfstype. And yes, it can be saved, of course.

> > > Yup, reiserfs is last in /proc/filesystems when loaded as module, but on
> > > my private machine (where it's linked into the kernel), it's right after
> > > ext2 and before vfat.
> > Do you have vfat as a loadable module?
> Hum, yes, but that's not the point, someone turned up with a SuSE 7.3
This is the point in fact. If you'd have both reiserfs and vfat compiled-in,
you'd see that vfat ebfore reiserfs in /proc/filesystems.

Bye,
Oleg