Bug#238066: partman only proposes ext2 and reiserfs on powerpc. ext3 is no more available.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:58:06PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On 15.III.2004 at 06:10 Sven Luther wrote:
> > 
> > Will followup with the partman log next time i try.
> 
> This is not going to help much in that case.
> 
> There are three cases for not showing ext3 as possible file system:
> 
> 1. partman-ext3 is not installed for some reason
> 
> 2. the kernel module for ext3 is not present
> 
> 3. partman-ext3 doesn't detect that the ext3 module is loaded in the
>    kernel. 
> 
> In order to check 3. partman does this:
> 
> 1. Tries to find ext3 in /proc/modules
> 2. If this fails then does modprobe ext3
> 3. Finaly tries to find ext3 in /proc/filesystems
> 
> Please send the contents of the files /proc/modules and
> /proc/filesystems.  Check also if the kernel module for ext3 is in
> /lib/modules.

Well, the problem is as follows :

 1) the -powerpc kernel used in most 32 bit powerpc installs has the ext3
 fs builtin.

 2) the -powerpc-small kernel used in oldworld pmacs, but not yet
 supported by d-i, has a ext3 module.

Partman wrongly supposes that ext3 is modular, and follows up into
installing and insmodding the -powerpc-small modules into the -powerpc
kernel. No idea if this succeeds or not, but this is dead wrong.

Maybe the search for ext3 in /proc/filesystems could be moved well up
this list ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther