From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 clings to you like flypaper
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:40:56 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2srio$v2k$1@tangens.hometree.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2460000.1045500532@[10.10.2.4]>
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> writes:
>And in answer to some other questions:
>This machine can't boot off CD, so rescue disks are not an option.
>It's remote anyway, and I shouldn't have to screw around with it to do this.
>I'm not using initrd
>The point remains, if I say I want ext2, I should get ext2, not whatever
>some random developer decides he thinks I should have. Worst of all,
>the system then lies to you and says it's mounted ext2 when it's not.
Don't compile any FS into the kernel. Load ext2 from an initrd. root
fs mounts as ext2 and you're happy.
Regards
Henning
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-18 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-17 7:04 Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-17 11:44 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-02-17 11:50 ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-17 16:48 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-17 17:08 ` Jörn Engel
2003-02-17 17:21 ` Markus Plail
2003-02-17 17:46 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-17 18:22 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-02-17 18:31 ` Jörn Engel
2003-02-17 18:38 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-12 8:44 ` Ookhoi
2003-02-17 17:17 ` James Bourne
2003-02-17 17:34 ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-17 18:14 ` James Bourne
2003-02-18 8:40 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen [this message]
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