Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:31:13 +0100 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: ext3 clings to you like flypaper |
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On Mon, 17 February 2003 09:46:51 -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > >> 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.
You appear to not have /etc/mtab as a symlink to /proc/mounts. One of the first things I do on fresh debian installations. The kernel should know better than some file, especially when / is mounted ro.
> > 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 ...
My broken memory tells me that Debian is working quite fine. The code in question should be in /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh in your system.
But my eye does not find the spot, where / is remounted with a different type. This is strange! I've often been surprised that adding a journal and putting ext3 support in the kernel without editing /etc/fstab was not enough.
I should test it again to prove my eye wrong.
Jörn
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