On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:31:03AM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 09:52, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Hello, > > > > It's my understanding that SILO cannot handle a dirty ext3 root > > partition as it really only understands ext2. Is this correct? If > > so, I think the sparc install docs should mention that at least your > > root should be ext2; ext3 (or some other fs) is ok for the rest of > > your partitions. > > Attached is a patch to allow SILO to handle a dirty ext3 root partition. > > I'm pretty sure Ben C. has seen this already.
This is really interesting. All of my UltraSPARC's use ext3, and because of the kernel work I do, they quite frequently crash. I've never once had a problem with SILO coming back up correctly. I think someone is mistaken. SILO need only be compiled with a version of libext2 which understands ext3 (the latest does). So potato compiled SILO is not ok for ext3. Woody SILO is. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
