Re: kernel-image-2.4.xx

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Tom" == Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com> writes:

    Tom> Does anyone know if these kernel images for i86 architecture
    Tom> support the ext3 file system?

I know that 2.4.18-k7, 2.4.18-686, and 2.4.18-586tsc certainly do,
I know this from experience.

    Tom> If so, is it in the kernel or a module?  I would like to set
    Tom> up my root directory as an ext3 fs -- but I can't unless this
    Tom> is in the kernel itself at boot time.

ext3 and ext2 are both built as modules. But you can mount your root
file system as ext3 since these kernels use an initrd image to get the
modules at boot time. They also try ext3 before they try ext2 so it
all works. I run the 2.4.18-686 kernel with / mounted as ext3.

I think the -i386 version *might* have had a bug where the ext2 module
was built into the kernel, so you could never get the root mounted as
ext3. This is from memory of a long, rambling discussion I noticed on
-devel, but I might have misread it.

Cheers!
Shyamal


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