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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Reorder ext4 and ext2 so that ext2 root filesystems are mounted using ext2
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:24:20AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> It's doubtful that there are that many ext2-only root filesystem users
> that would also have ext4 compiled into the kernel, but to adhere to
> the principle of least surprise, the correct ordering in fs/Makefile
> is ext3, followed by ext2, and finally ext4.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> -obj-$(CONFIG_EXT4_FS) += ext4/ # Before ext2 so root fs can be ext4
> +obj-$(CONFIG_EXT2_FS) += ext2/
> +# We place ext4 after ext2 so plain ext2 root fs's are mounted using ext4
> +# unless explicitly requested by rootfstype
> +obj-$(CONFIG_EXT4_FS) += ext4/

Try
> +# We place ext4 after ext2 so plain ext2 root fs's aren't mounted using ext4
> +# unless explicitly requested by rootfstype

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David Fries <david@fries.net>
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