Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 07 Nov 2001 16:36:13 -0700 | From | "D. Stimits" <> | Subject | Re: ext3 vs resiserfs vs xfs |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:00:53PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > > > > > 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? > > > > > > Try adding `rootflags=data=journal' to your kernel boot > > > commandline. > > > > > > > Oh, JOY! > > > > adding that line to an ext2 only kernel will make it kernel panic when it > > tries to mount root because it doesn't understand the option! > > > > It's dumb that an unrecognised option be a fatal error. Same > problem with modules, actually. If you add a new module option > to modules.conf and then go back to an older kernel your module > won't load (here's where kaos pokes me with the rtfm stick).
It might be interesting if modules.conf had a scheme similar to versioning for System.map. E.G., search first for /etc/modules.conf-2.4.9-6, and if not found, go for /etc/modules.conf (as a fallback in case version-specific didn't exist).
D. Stimits, stimits@idcomm.com
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