Re: ext3 not recognized?

[Andrew Agno <agno@AI.SRI.COM>]

dman writes:
 > What is your root fs there?  If either
 >     a)  root fs is not ext3
 > or
 >     b)  ext3 module is in your initrd and loaded by the kernel during
 >         boot
 > 
 > you can have it as a module.  (this is a general statement; perhaps
 > there is something special regarding ext3 that makes a difference).

Well, the help seemed to imply that if you have your root fs as ext3
(which I do:
% rdev
/dev/hdb2 /
% tune2fs -l /dev/hdb2
...
Filesystem features:      has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super
...
), then you needed to have it compiled into the kernel:
  [ from .../linux/Documentation/Configure.help ]
  module will be called ext3.o.  Be aware however that the file system
  of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
  be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous.

I'm beginning to suspect that it will work if ext2 is also compiled as 
a module, and both are put into the initrd image.  I'll have to do
some testing tomorrow to see if this is true.  Anybody have any
experiences either way?

Andrew.