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Re: Still Considering Debian - But Stuck!



On Monday 02 February 2004 19:38, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Fred Whipple said on Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:24:24PM -0500:
> > Finally, while I'm messing around with the kernel, I'd have to
> > include support for ext3fs.  In our environment, journaling is not
> > an option, it's a base requirement.  Of course replacing the kernel
> > would pretty much give me kernel-level support for it.  From that
> > point, how complicated is it to get the rest of the tools to play
> > nicely with ext3fs?  I'd imagine that a large set of tools would
> > need to be replaced, including e2fsck, mount, umount, etc.
>
> Nope.  To use ext3, you just need an appropriate kernel.  The ext2
> utils can turn the journal on for you once you're running a kernel
> with ext3 support.

bf2.4 has ext3 support at installation time and also the 2.4 kernels in 
stable have ext3 support. Its works fine one ower Sparc-machines.

Hans

-- 
"How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only 
coded it."
    -- Linus Torvalds



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