From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
To: David van Hoose <david.vanhoose@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:28:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1BdzBK-00007z-Ga@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b45V-6tl-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
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.
--
Ciao,
Pascal
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-25 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <2aZfF-3es-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2b45V-6tl-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-06-25 22:28 ` Pascal Schmidt [this message]
2004-06-24 23:14 Collapse ext2 and 3 please John Richard Moser
2004-06-25 9:16 ` Helge Hafting
2004-06-25 11:30 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 11:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 11:50 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 12:01 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <1088165028.16286.59.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-06-25 12:05 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 12:13 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <1088165426.16286.67.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-06-25 12:18 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 13:03 ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-06-25 12:40 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 14:03 ` Rik van Riel
2004-06-25 12:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 12:15 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 12:26 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-25 12:48 ` Philip R. Auld
2004-06-25 12:53 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 13:39 ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-06-25 18:55 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 22:26 ` John Richard Moser
2004-06-25 12:25 ` Sean Neakums
2004-06-25 18:01 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-25 18:04 ` Sean Neakums
2004-06-25 18:41 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-25 20:52 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-06-25 20:50 ` Sean Neakums
2004-06-25 21:36 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-06-25 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-25 23:48 ` John Richard Moser
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