In the Red Hat Linux spec file for the 2.2.19 kernel, there is a note not to enable ext3 and LFS at the same time. I'm wondering whether this is an old note, and that it is safe to use ext3 0.0.7a on a system with LFS enabled, or if there are still issues with it. I'm aware that 0.0.7a is a really old version, and 2.2 isn't the most modern kernel, but it is what I have to work with. Thanks. Peter
On Nov 29, 2001 20:14 -0500, Peter Bowen wrote:> In the Red Hat Linux spec file for the 2.2.19 kernel, there is a note > not to enable ext3 and LFS at the same time. I'm wondering whether this > is an old note, and that it is safe to use ext3 0.0.7a on a system with > LFS enabled, or if there are still issues with it. > > I'm aware that 0.0.7a is a really old version, and 2.2 isn't the most > modern kernel, but it is what I have to work with.If you need LFS support for ext3, I have patches which implement this for 0.0.6b, but it should apply OK with 0.0.7a (or at least it won't take much effort to update). It is part of the Turbolinux 2.2 kernel, and VA Linux also used something very similar for their 2.2 kernels. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
I've got LFS patches available at http://www.moldybread.net/patch/kernel-2.2/ (Along with other stuff like extended attributes and acls.) The general lfs patch is adapted from the -aa series kernels. (linux-2.2.20-lfs-1.0.patch) The ext3 specific patch was pulled from the linux-fsdevel list, and is updated to work with 0.0.7a. (linux-2.2.20-ext3+lfs-1.0.patch) There is also a small patch to workaround a rare oops on ext3-0.0.7a. (ext3-fix.patch) Details about this problem are in the list archives (several months ago). Hope this helps. On 29 Nov 2001, Peter Bowen wrote:> In the Red Hat Linux spec file for the 2.2.19 kernel, there is a note > not to enable ext3 and LFS at the same time. I'm wondering whether this > is an old note, and that it is safe to use ext3 0.0.7a on a system with > LFS enabled, or if there are still issues with it. > > I'm aware that 0.0.7a is a really old version, and 2.2 isn't the most > modern kernel, but it is what I have to work with. > > Thanks. > Peter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ext3-users mailing list > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users >