RE: [Xen-devel] -xen config...

To:	"Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	RE: [Xen-devel] -xen config...
From:	"Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:05:24 -0000
Cc:	James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >Can anyone put forward a good reason not to compile ext3 in?
> >  
> I don't know that it matters, but for what it's worth, this 
> shouldn't create problems.
> 
> ext3 is (almost) backwards compatible with ext2.  ext2 is 
> suffient to mount the root device such that modules can be 
> loaded (and then the root filesystem is actually mounted).

I've seen problems in the past (on native) when the filesystem has not
been shut down cleanly and ext2 didn't want to mount it, and I needed to
create an initrd with ext3 to boot. 

Ian

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