Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 19 Apr 1996 08:52:37 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Ext2 Problem |
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On Thu, 18 Apr 1996 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > aeb: > No, it is unfortunate that it is needed, but the only clean solution > is just to tell the kernel what the type of the rootfs is. > And it is no big deal - just one line in lilo.conf.
I like the patch (hasn't been applied, because I've been so totally swamped by email lately that I've lost about 50% of the mails in the noise). However, I'd be even happier if somebody made the minix-fs detaction a bit more robust. Essentially, it should also load the root inode, check that it's a directory, and possibly even check that the first entries are "." and "..".
(The "." and ".." checks are not there so much for sanity-testing as for automatic checking of the name length of the filesystem: it currently uses a ratehr ugly setup with different magic numbers for 14/30 char names, but it really _should_ check where "." and ".." are).
Any chance of somebody looking into this?
Linus
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