Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Apr 1996 09:59:30 +0200 | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: Ext2 Problem |
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On Thu, 18 Apr 1996 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > aeb: > No, it is unfortunate that it is needed, but the only clean solution > is just to tell the kernel what the type of the rootfs is. > And it is no big deal - just one line in lilo.conf.
I like the patch. However, I'd be even happier if somebody made the minix-fs detection a bit more robust. Essentially, it should also load the root inode, check that it's a directory, and possibly even check that the first entries are "." and "..".
Any chance of somebody looking into this?
Linus
I could have a look at it tonight, postponing the SCSI patch by a day. Sounds a bit messy, however, especially if the fs turns out to be non-minix and we have to undo/invalidate all that was done. This is a very minor problem (strange, nobody ever complained that I noticed, and now we have three cases in one week) and not worth a lot of code.
Andries
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