Re: User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?
* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson (baloo@ursine.dyndns.org) [020412 02:33]:
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Hall Stevenson wrote:
>
> > -- When you do your 'make config', be sure to enable ext2 support,
> > assuming this is what you use. It's *not* enabled or turned on by
> > default anymore. Also, the default processor type is now a Pentium
>
> I would highly recommend ext3 at this point, just make sure your
> e2fstools are the current version (in woody? sid?), and once you've
> recompiled, tune2fs -j /dev/(your partition goes here). Edit fstab
> so ext2 is now est3, and viola! You're using a journaled, fast
> filesystem.
I'd still have ext2 support compiled in in case something happens to
your journal. It will fall back to ext2 if it can't mount it as ext3. If
you don't have ext2 support, that fancy journaling filesystem won't do
you much good !! ;-o
Hall
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