Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please

Pascal Schmidt
2004-06-25T22:28:39Z

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:00:23 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:

> It says ext2. Based on other messages, I look at /sbin/mkinitrd.
> It looks to me that RedHat/Fedora are pretty dumb making stupid
> assumptions about the fs type instead of looking at the filesystem types
> that root has setup in fstab.

Well, if the initrd (which is a ramdisk with a filesystem on it) is ext2,
you need ext2 in the kernel. It has nothing to do with the root filesystem
type, really. Journalling on an initrd makes no sense, so ext2 is
actually a sensible choice there.

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Ciao,
Pascal