Dear list readers - it was brought to my attention that during the upgrade of a server to rh7.2, and selecting the ext3 migration works well with 1 exception that i need verified if i could please. i heard that once you migrate to ext3, you may no longer do a kernel upgrade without downgrading to ext2 and then putting the kernel or AC kernel in place 'patched'. What i need to know is, once migrated, are we no longer able to use RPM to upgrade the kernel and still have ext3 work, as in no kernel panics on reboot? If thats the case, then i think i will downgrade to ext2, but my next question then becomes, how to do this within tune2fs?? thanks for any insights into this issue. Michael B. Weiner, Linux+, Linux+ SME Senior Systems Administrator/WebOps Systems & Technology Department americangreetings.com Three American Road, Cleveland, OH 44144 Phone: 216.889.5028 E-mail: mweiner@americangreetings.com
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:49:56PM -0500, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:> Dear list readers - >[snip, and take out the ugly double spacing...]> verified if i could please. i heard that once you migrate to ext3, you may > no longer do a kernel upgrade without downgrading to ext2 and then putting > the kernel or AC kernel in place 'patched'. What i need to know is, once > migrated, are we no longer able to use RPM to upgrade the kernel and still > have ext3 work, as in no kernel panics on reboot?I don't use redhat, but I seriously doubt that they would require this. I have booted from ext3 disks with grub and lilo without any trouble. I have compiled all of my own kernels. This shouldn't make any difference though. I've only downgraded to ext2 do resize (remove, create new bigger one) my journal when I changed to data journaling. Mike
no you dont have to worry about it. Redhat up2date does upgrade your kernel painlessly from updates.redhat.com using kernel RPM and ext3 works pretty well as well. - vinny On Monday 29 October 2001 03:49 pm, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:> Dear list readers - > > it was brought to my attention that during the upgrade of a server to > rh7.2, > > and selecting the ext3 migration works well with 1 exception that i need > > verified if i could please. i heard that once you migrate to ext3, you may > > no longer do a kernel upgrade without downgrading to ext2 and then putting > > the kernel or AC kernel in place 'patched'. What i need to know is, once > > migrated, are we no longer able to use RPM to upgrade the kernel and still > > have ext3 work, as in no kernel panics on reboot? > > If thats the case, then i think i will downgrade to ext2, but my next > > question then becomes, how to do this within tune2fs?? > > thanks for any insights into this issue. > > Michael B. Weiner, Linux+, Linux+ SME > > Senior Systems Administrator/WebOps > > Systems & Technology Department > > americangreetings.com > > Three American Road, Cleveland, OH 44144 > > Phone: 216.889.5028 > > E-mail: mweiner@americangreetings.com
no you dont have to worry about it. Redhat up2date does upgrade your kernel painlessly from updates.redhat.com using kernel RPM and ext3 works pretty well as well. - vinny On Monday 29 October 2001 03:49 pm, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:> Dear list readers - > > it was brought to my attention that during the upgrade of a server to > rh7.2, > > and selecting the ext3 migration works well with 1 exception that i need > > verified if i could please. i heard that once you migrate to ext3, you may > > no longer do a kernel upgrade without downgrading to ext2 and then putting > > the kernel or AC kernel in place 'patched'. What i need to know is, once > > migrated, are we no longer able to use RPM to upgrade the kernel and still > > have ext3 work, as in no kernel panics on reboot? > > If thats the case, then i think i will downgrade to ext2, but my next > > question then becomes, how to do this within tune2fs?? > > thanks for any insights into this issue. > > Michael B. Weiner, Linux+, Linux+ SME > > Senior Systems Administrator/WebOps > > Systems & Technology Department > > americangreetings.com > > Three American Road, Cleveland, OH 44144 > > Phone: 216.889.5028 > > E-mail: mweiner@americangreetings.com