David Woodhouse wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 22:44 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
If you have an ext3 image on a flash key and boot via LinuxBIOS, the
boot fails, and you get dropped into a shell. fsck -p of the flash key,
and everything is fine again.
Is there some way to fix this? This feels very fragile to me.
Just to be clear: this is _expected_ behaviour. Ext3 is
backward-compatible with ext2 _if_ it's mounted uncleanly and the
journal is clear. If there are writes outstanding in the journal then it
is not compatible with ext2. Thus the refusal to mount, with an error
message about incompatible features.
ext2 is doing the right thing. Our boot scripts need a little cleaner
boot technique.
ron
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