Re: ext3 vs resiserfs vs xfs

[Ryan Cumming]

On November 7, 2001 12:25, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> If both ext2 and ext3 are compiled into the kernel, then ext3 will try
> first to mount the root fs.  If there is no journal on this fs (check this
> with tune2fs -l <dev>, and look for "has_journal" feature), then it will be
> mounted as ext2.  If you are doing strange things with initrd and modules,

Is there any particular reason why the ext3 driver can't handle mounting both 
ext2 and ext3 filesystems? 

-Ryan