Re: [Sheflug] Ext3

[Richard Lowe <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Mark Wrangham (mark [at] alphageek.uklinux.net) wrote:
> On 2001.12.10 00:12:17 +0000 Ian Wright wrote:
> >I'm confused - Ok, so what's new I hear you say....
> >
> >I just installed RedHat 7.2 on one of my machines with the Ext3
> >filesystem
> >which was the default option (kernel 2.4.7). Then I tried to build a new
> >Kernel using linux-2.4.9 and Rtai to get real-time operation. When I
> >rebooted to the new kernel it tells me that 'Ext3 filesystem is not
> >supported by this kernel'... Dohhhh! What's going on? Any ideas. I've
> >looked
> >through all the options in xconfig a couple of times and can't see any
> >reference to ext3 although I do see '2nd extended fs'
> >
> Ext3 is a kernel module - here's the last two lines from my /sbin/lsmod 
> command
> (Redhat 7.2 with stock kernel)
> 
> >
> ext3                   64624   3 jbd                    40992   3  [ext3]
>

No.

This is Redhat being less than helpful.
ext3 was not included in the stock kernel, until either 2.4.15 or 2.4.16
(I don't remember which).

You should compile 2.4.16 (which has it)
or I belive the -ac kernels had it since sometime around
2.4.9-ac<something>

and *don't* compile as a module, if / is ext3, if / is ext3, you have to
have it compiled into the kernel (the machine will still work with it as
a module, it will (or rather "should") fall back to ext2).

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