Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:46:51 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: ext3 clings to you like flypaper |
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>> The point remains, if I say I want ext2, I should get ext2, not whatever >> some random developer decides he thinks I should have. Worst of all, >> the system then lies to you and says it's mounted ext2 when it's not. > > This is, how things worked for me: > 1. Kernel tries to mount rootfs ext3. If this fails, it will continue > trying ext2. No other fs compiled into kernel. > 2. If there is a journal, it is ext3. > 3. Init scripts read /etc/fstab and read ext2. > 4. root is remounted as ext2. > 5. System allows me to log it, root is ext2, life is good. > > Where is your behaviour different from this list? Where do you say you > want ext2 but don't get it?
That's what I'd expect to happen ... as others have pointed out, it may be a distro issue ... do you have the snippet of the init scrips that do the remount as ext2 to hand? Maybe debian is just broken ...
Thanks,
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