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Re: different configs for 386 and 686 kernel



On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 04:51:09PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> Marcel Kolaja <mkolaja@mistral.cz> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> > (I am talking about the 2.4.20-3 kernel image packages.)
> 
> Seems to be a bug in 386, because it might make it impossible to mount
> / as ext3 if ext3 is built as module and ext2 is not.

This is exactly, what I was thinking about it. If I have / ext3, it will
be mounted as ext2 with the 386 kernel. Am I right? So shall I file the
bug report against kernel-image-2.4.20?

>                  cu andreas


Regards,

Marcel Kolaja
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