I filed the following bug regarding ext2 being non-essential according to info I received. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53412 I have been told that ext2 IS essential. In that case, why is it even selectable and why are the other file systems not beneath ext2 in the tree? Surely one of these should be the case if ext2 is required for the running of Gentoo? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
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.