On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 08:55:02AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > as it stands, the only modules supplied by red hat's > current initrd.img are for ext3 and jbd, so it's easy > enough to build those into a new kernel and not have > to mess with initrd any more. is this a fair > observation?
Only in ide drive systems. If your root FS is on a SCSI drive, initrd also loads the SCSI controller's driver. > and (i've mentioned this before) i'm still baffled why > red hat doesn't just build ext3 support into the shipped > kernel and be done with it. the rationale i've heard is that > ext3 is still considered "experimental", but if that's the > case, it's inconsistent to have ext3 as the *default* filesystem > choice at install time, isn't it? I agree 100% with you on this. > anyway, if not for ext3, is it reasonable to suggest to > students that they can skip dealing with initrd just to keep > things simple? See my previous comment on SCSI drives. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Av. Kennedy 5757, of. 1502 Ingeniero de Sistemas Las Condes, Santiago, Chile Virtualia S.A. Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763
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