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    SubjectRe: [reiserfs-list] Boot failure: msdos pushes in front of reiserfs
    Hello!

    On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:47:12PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
    > > Looking at init/main.c and fs/super.c, rootfsflags parameter is never
    > > saved, moreover - it's original value is destroyed, once initrd fs is
    > > mounted. And I only see not very nice ways of fixing this, so perhaps
    > > someone more exeprienced can come up with the solution? (my crappy
    > > ides is not to do putname() on fs_names, if (real_root_dev !=
    > > ROOT_DEV), all of this is only when CONFIG_..._INITRD enabled)
    > Thanks for confirming a bug, so I understand that mounting an initrd
    > loses the rootfsflags, and as the actual root= parameter is kept over an
    > initrd boot, it should also be possible for rootfsflags= -- can the
    > rootfsflags maybe be saved along with the root= parameter?

    No. rootfsflags is saved. What is not saved is rootfstype. And yes, it can be saved, of course.

    > > > Yup, reiserfs is last in /proc/filesystems when loaded as module, but on
    > > > my private machine (where it's linked into the kernel), it's right after
    > > > ext2 and before vfat.
    > > Do you have vfat as a loadable module?
    > Hum, yes, but that's not the point, someone turned up with a SuSE 7.3
    This is the point in fact. If you'd have both reiserfs and vfat compiled-in,
    you'd see that vfat ebfore reiserfs in /proc/filesystems.

    Bye,
    Oleg
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