Re: ext3 vs resiserfs vs xfs

Mike Castle (dalgoda@ix.netcom.com)
Wed, 7 Nov 2001 15:38:05 -0800

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:52:29PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:00:53PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Try adding `rootflags=data=journal' to your kernel boot
> > commandline.
>
> adding that line to an ext2 only kernel will make it kernel panic when it
> tries to mount root because it doesn't understand the option!

So set that option only for ext3 enabled kernels. If you're using lilo,
instead of using a global append= setting, use a local one for that ext3
kernel, and leave it off for the ext2-only kernel.

mrc

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