Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2001 13:33:01 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: ext3 vs resiserfs vs xfs |
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:15:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > > At 19:12 07/11/2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > when coming back up it fscked (I didn't touch anything - didn't even > > > notice > > > > any 5 second thing but I wasn't looking at this screen) and it found two > > > > lost inodes (I got two entries in lost and found). So it still needs to > > > > fsck by the looks of it? > > > > > >That sounds like you used your own kernel with it and had ext2 mounting > > >the root fs (remember its back compatible) > > > > Yes, that makes a lot of sense. After the reset I went into my own kernel > > with both ext2 and ext3 compiled into it. However, before the reboot, I was > > still in the RH kernel (99% sure it was so, but my memory might be > > deceiving me). > > > > Is there any Right Way(TM) to fix this situation considering I want to have > > both ext2 and ext3 in my kernels (apart from the obvious of changing the > > order fs are called during root mount in the kernel)? > > > > There's a fair bit of material on this at > > http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html > > executive summary: > > - use latest util-linux and e2fsprogs > - Make the root fs have fstype `ext3' in /etc/fstab > - Make the others `auto' > - Alternatively, use "ext3,ext2" in fstab. >
I have a switch "data=journal" that ext2 will choke on when I boot into an ext2 only kernel.
Is there another way to change the journaling mode besides modifying /etc/fstab?
It'd be nice if it could be a compile time switch for default journal mode...
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