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

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On 15.III.2004 at 19:17 Sven Luther wrote:
>
> 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.

This complicates things.  partman-ext3 depends on ext3-modules and as
a result ext3-modules will be installed even on newworld pmacs.  I
suppose that the best solution of this would be the newworld kernel
package to declare "Provides: ext3-modules".

> 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.

If it succeeds then partman-ext3 will consider ext3 as valid file
systems.  Otherwise partman-ext3 will find ext3 in /proc/filesystems
and as a result ext3 will be again a valid file system.  I don't know
why this is not so.  

(By the way partman-ext3 has this behaviour only since version 17 from
14 Mar 2004 11:04:29 +0200.  The versions before 17 ignore
/proc/filesystems.  It is possible that you used somewhat older
version of partman-ext3.)

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

Yes, this can be done.

Anton Zinoviev