On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:24 PM Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I presume that this is the patch removing ext3 kernel driver. > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/15/438 > > -T > > Rich was concerned about the origins of a logwatch message for one of his filesystems, which makes sense, his drives are using an old filesystem, so it sends him a friendly warning. The removal of the driver is only relevant in the sense that it makes such warnings a guarantee. The driver is gone, but EXT3 is still actively being used. So on modern systems you see a benine message pointing to a potential point of failure. > On Mon, Aug 5, 2019, 17:11 Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > You guys are running distro I am not familiar with, but I do not think > > that there is such a thing like ext3 kernel module/driver anymore for > > couple of years. > > > > I believe that the ext4 driver/module is used for both ext3 and ext4. So, > > you may be chasing ghost with focussing on 3/4 discrepancy. > > > > Warning: please verify my statement with your distro. > > > > Tomas > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2019, 13:12 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> > wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: > >> > >> > However to answer your question of "why am I seeing this", note that > you > >> > are mounting EXT3 using the EXT4 drivers. > >> > >> Which is not the result of anything I've explicitly done. When the > system > >> started doing this I have no idea. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Rich > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PLUG mailing list > >> PLUG@pdxlinux.org > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
