Summary: | Kernel help says second extended fs support is required | ||
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Product: | [OLD] Docs-user | Reporter: | Quitch <quitchy> |
Component: | Other | Assignee: | Docs Team <docs-team> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | minor | ||
Priority: | Low | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Quitch
2004-06-09 07:28:05 UTC
ext2 is required afaik. The kernel help is correct and I don't think we tell the user otherwise elsewhere... *** Bug 56043 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Well, ext2 is not required for operation. It *used* to be, before there were other full-featured file-systems available in the kernel. In fact, you can have a system without ext2 support at all, provided you are using one of the other available file-systems, such as jfs, xfs, or reiserfs for all partitions. It is always a good idea to provide ext2 support if you are going to be using ext3, if only for recovery purposes. All that being said, the help in the kernel's config/menuconfig/xconfig comes from the kernel developers upstream. The best place to have this changed it with them. yeah, file a small bug upstream if you really want to see this resolved ... http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ the help doesnt *exactly* say you need to have it, but it is outdated with respect to talking about dosfs support vs ext2 support |