I have had some HW problems with my computer which resulted in many hangups and long fsck each boot, so I decided to switch to ext3. There were no problem except that root fs was still mounted as ext2. Kernel is kernel-image-2.4.17-586tsc version 2.4.17-1 from the distribution. The loadmodules script in the initrd does not load ext3. When I added modprobe -k ext3 my problem was solved. I'd like to ask you if it is the right way how to solve the problem.
-- Marek, http://m-a.sk