On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 10:16 -0500, Chad Bailey wrote: > Haha, I love your caption
Might have been a bit extreme > [ ] Use ext4 for ext2/ext3 file systems <---- EVIL AVOID!!! > > I recommend submitting for official change in menuconfig :P Not sure how it should be modified but they might include a warning, or additional information. > Thanks for the heads up about this, enabling something I have no idea > what it does or how it might destroy things sounds like exactly the > thing I would do. If only the real menuconfig had these wonderful > captions :P Well its not really going to destroy anything, well maybe. Basically what happens is it might end up mounting ext3 partitions as ext2, like your root partition. Which is not really ideal, to downgrade the fs without your knowledge/awareness or you wanting it to be that way. Now it could potentially screw up your file system. I don't think its very safe to mount a ext3 partition as ext2, but you can and it works for the most part. Its something that could cause potential problems and things to change you did not intend and/or are unaware of. Which is why I referred to it as evil. It seems like a good option, saves space in kernel etc. But it comes with some unforeseen, undisclosed side effects, you want to be aware of before going that route. I would just assume avoid it, not sure if there are really any good use cases, or arguments to leave it as is. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
