"paladin" == paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
paladin> Hi, On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:29:10 +0100
paladin> "Adam Gent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I want to run my main file system as ext3 and have already
>> converted it to ext3 and update the fstab file, but whenever I
>> boot the system it loads the root fs as ext2, so it is this
>> that makes me things that ext3 is not compiled into the kernel.
paladin> The kernel can only load modules AFTER mounting the root
paladin> partition. If you want to mount it as ext3 the kernel as
paladin> to have it inside!
You are mistaken about this (and it is a common misconception). If you
use an initrd image, like the Debian 2.4.x kernels do, you can build
ext3 as a module and boot a machine with an ext3 root file system.
The 2.4.18-{arch} kernels all include ext3 as a module, and you can
use this to load an ext3 root partition. It works out of the box, no
extra magic is required.
I have some recollection of a bug in the bf24 kernel image in Woody
that caused the ext3 module to not load before ext2, but all the other
images do work (-k7 and -686 certainly do in my own experience).
Cheers!
Shyamal
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