On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> If I make a journal on my rootfs (tune2fs -j ...) and set my root
> filesystem in /etc/fstab to ext3, will the kernel installation
> (specifically initrd creation) be smart enough to put the ext3.o
> module into the initrd?
>
> Will the kernel try the modular ext3 driver before the statically
> linked ext2 driver (which will of course mount an ext3 filesystem)?

AFAIK the mkinitrd script checks /etc/fstab only for file systems -- e.g.
if you have put reiserfs there then initrd will contain reiserfs.o, and so
on.......

Abel


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