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



On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:38:29PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> 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".

This would be for the kernel .udeb, right, and so it would be fixed in
linux-kernel-di, right ? 

> > 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.)

Yeah, naturally, i tested this yesterday, so ...

I will test again and provide feedback to you tomorrow.

> > Maybe the search for ext3 in /proc/filesystems could be moved well up
> > this list ? 
> 
> Yes, this can be done.

Would be more logical.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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