On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote: > >* Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: > >> Why would I not be allowed to mount an ext3 filesystem when the > >> modules are loaded? > > > > As I said already, this sounds like bug #261893. > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261893 > > > > I think I can confirm this. > I hacked my 2.6.8 initrd so that it wouldn't try to mount root as ext2 or > ext3 and the oops disappeared. > > Is there a special reason that ext2 is not a module? It's not like you will > be able to boot this thing without an initrd because everything ide, scsi is > a module. And at least now there is somebody who 1) doesn't need it, and 2) > is actually bugged by it :) > > I will rebuild the kernel with ext2 as a module and see if a few > strategically placed prinktk's can pinpoint this bug. >
FYI, I *am* able to force /var to mount as ext2 instead of ext3. So the problem seems to be specific to journaling. Thanks, Toni ------------------------------------------------------------------- Toni Harbaugh-Blackford [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC) National Cancer Institute Contractor - SAIC/Frederick
