This one time, at band camp, H. S. Teoh said: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 04:08:20PM +0100, Marcel Kolaja wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to finetune kernel to fit more my needs. Studying the config > > files for Debian kernels I found out, the 386 kernel has CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y > > but the 686 kernel has CONFIG_EXT2_FS=m. This is intention or mistake? Why > > do we want to have the ext2fs support compiled directly in the kernel and > > not as a module in the 386 subarchitecture? > [snip] > > Umm... isn't this a bug?? AFAIK, a kernel with ext2 compiled as a module > won't be able to boot on an ext2 system. This has happened to me before: I > get a kernel panic because when it tries to mount /, it realizes that it > has to load ext2.o, but because it requires ext2.o in order to read > /lib/modules, it gets stuck. Of course, if you're using ext3 or reiserfs > then this won't apply, but I suspect a large majority of Debian users are > using ext2. This is where an initrd works nicely. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Talking much about oneself can also be | | steve@lobefin.net | a means to conceal oneself. -- | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Friedrich Nietzsche | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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