"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello all,
>
> 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?
It's entirely untested, but it's supported ;-).
Basically mkinitrd parses your /etc/fstab and will take the needed
filesystem for the root device.
> Will the kernel try the modular ext3 driver before the statically
> linked ext2 driver (which will of course mount an ext3 filesystem)?
You need to try! :-)
Maybe the remount?
Ok, please test and report to us!
--
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
