Summary: | ext2 not required for selection of other file systems | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | Quitch <quitchy> |
Component: | Everything | Assignee: | Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Quitch
2004-07-04 04:46:42 UTC
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. Now, I do not understand what this bug has been filed for, as it is exactly the same as the other bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53412 *** Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this. |