Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ext3 clings to you like flypaper | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | 17 Feb 2003 19:22:00 +0100 |
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Le lun 17/02/2003 à 18:46, Martin J. Bligh a écrit : > >> 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 ...
You can't remount to a different filesystem type. You would have to play games with pivot_root(), mount root once under each fs type and be sure every fd is closed (even those from /dev/*) before unmounting the first instance. Basically not manageable.
Xav
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