* Re: 2.4.13 kernel and ext3???
2001-10-30 17:50 2.4.13 kernel and ext3??? P.Agenbag
@ 2001-10-30 18:07 ` Nikita Danilov
2001-10-30 18:08 ` Rik van Riel
` (2 subsequent siblings)
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From: Nikita Danilov @ 2001-10-30 18:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: P.Agenbag; +Cc: linux-kernel
P.Agenbag writes:
> Hi
> I just installed RedHat 7.2 with the 2.4.7 kernel. Low and behold, when
> I tried to install the latest kernels, I see that there are many options
> in the RedHat 2.4.7 kernel that are not even in the 2.4.13 kernel! How
> does this work? Also, I see many (EXPERIMENTAL) greyd-out areas in the
> kernel as well as other greyd out areas which are not experimental, yet
> won't allow me to select it ( reiserfs for example ) .
> How can I get reiserfs to compile into the kernel, and to satsify my
> curiosity, how do you enable the experimental options?
Turn on first option "Prompt for development and/or incomplete
code/drivers" in the first configuration sub-menu "Code maturity level
options".
Read namesys.com/faq.html
>
> Does it mean that if there is a fairly large difference between the
> RedHat 2.4.7 and the stock one from kernel.org, that they are not really
> the same? ie, does anyone foresee any future problems with redhat adding
> all these extra features to their kernel and people who would like to
> upgrade to a newer version ( for one, I selected ext3 during install,
> yet, now trying to install 2.4.13, I must revert back to ext2...)
>
> Thanks
Nikita.
>
>
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2001-10-30 17:50 2.4.13 kernel and ext3??? P.Agenbag
2001-10-30 18:07 ` Nikita Danilov
@ 2001-10-30 18:08 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-30 23:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-30 18:15 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-10-30 22:57 ` Alessandro Suardi
3 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rik van Riel @ 2001-10-30 18:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: P.Agenbag; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, P.Agenbag wrote:
> Does it mean that if there is a fairly large difference between the
> RedHat 2.4.7 and the stock one from kernel.org, that they are not
> really the same?
Indeed, but that's a good thing because people often want/need
more features or bugfixes than what's in the standard kernel.
> ie, does anyone foresee any future problems with redhat adding
> all these extra features to their kernel and people who would like to
> upgrade to a newer version ( for one, I selected ext3 during install,
> yet, now trying to install 2.4.13, I must revert back to ext2...)
ext3 has been in Alan's kernels for a while now, you can
always upgrade to a new -ac kernel and keep using ext3.
Also, the fact that ext3 isn't available in 2.4 -linus
doesn't sound like a good reason to not make this useful
feature available to the users of Linux distributions ;)
regards,
Rik
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* Re: 2.4.13 kernel and ext3???
2001-10-30 17:50 2.4.13 kernel and ext3??? P.Agenbag
2001-10-30 18:07 ` Nikita Danilov
2001-10-30 18:08 ` Rik van Riel
@ 2001-10-30 18:15 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-10-30 22:57 ` Alessandro Suardi
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Joel Jaeggli @ 2001-10-30 18:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: P.Agenbag; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, P.Agenbag wrote:
> Hi
> I just installed RedHat 7.2 with the 2.4.7 kernel. Low and behold, when
> I tried to install the latest kernels, I see that there are many options
> in the RedHat 2.4.7 kernel that are not even in the 2.4.13 kernel! How
> does this work?
patches, patches more patches...
> Also, I see many (EXPERIMENTAL) greyd-out areas in the
> kernel as well as other greyd out areas which are not experimental, yet
> won't allow me to select it ( reiserfs for example ) .
> How can I get reiserfs to compile into the kernel, and to satsify my
> curiosity, how do you enable the experimental options?
in the code maturity level options select:
Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
> Does it mean that if there is a fairly large difference between the
> RedHat 2.4.7 and the stock one from kernel.org, that they are not really
> the same?
much of what's different are drivers that either haven't yet been accepted
into the tree or won't be accepted for various reasons...
> ie, does anyone foresee any future problems with redhat adding
> all these extra features to their kernel and people who would like to
> upgrade to a newer version ( for one, I selected ext3 during install,
> yet, now trying to install 2.4.13, I must revert back to ext2...)
you can add ext3 by either grabbing the andrew morton et al patch from...
http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/
or by appling one of the ac series patches from alan.
I suspect when you see a new development tree be created (shortly) that a
significant amount of code will migrate into that.
joelja
> Thanks
>
>
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2001-10-30 17:50 2.4.13 kernel and ext3??? P.Agenbag
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
2001-10-30 18:15 ` Joel Jaeggli
@ 2001-10-30 22:57 ` Alessandro Suardi
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From: Alessandro Suardi @ 2001-10-30 22:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: P.Agenbag; +Cc: linux-kernel
"P.Agenbag" wrote:
>
[snip]
> upgrade to a newer version ( for one, I selected ext3 during install,
> yet, now trying to install 2.4.13, I must revert back to ext2...)
Moving back and forth between ext2 and ext3 works transparently,
see the docs here:
http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html
--alessandro
"we live as we dream alone / to break the spell we mix with the others
we were not born in isolation / but sometimes it seems that way"
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