Messages in this thread Patch in this message | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:59:21 -0800 | Subject | Re: some curiosities on the filesystems layout in kernel config | From | "Joshua M. Kwan" <> |
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On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:00:40AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 1) where is the USMDOS selection that's listed in the Kconfig file? > it doesn't appear in the menu
I think you have to select DOS filesystem first and MSDOS fs support, then it shows up.
> > 2) shouldn't ext3 depend on ext2? >
It doesn't currently, but it should. Patch to 2.4.20 vanilla is attached, it should apply with some fuzz to patched trees such as -ac and -ck. (I also renamed Second extended fs to Ext2, a pet peeve of mine..)
> 3) currently, since quotas are only supported for ext2, ext3 and > reiserfs, shouldn't quotas depend on at least one of those > being selected?
Not sure whether this is true, I'm not quite sure. And plus I don't know enough about Config.ins to write that into the patch (Is it even possible in 2.4's Kconfig?)
Regards Josh --- fs/Config.in.orig 2003-01-11 22:53:20.000000000 -0800 +++ fs/Config.in 2003-01-11 22:56:18.000000000 -0800 @@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ dep_tristate 'BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_BFS_FS $CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL -tristate 'Ext3 journalling file system support' CONFIG_EXT3_FS +tristate 'Ext2 file system support' CONFIG_EXT2_FS + +dep_tristate 'Ext3 journalling file system support' CONFIG_EXT3_FS $CONFIG_EXT2_FS # CONFIG_JBD could be its own option (even modular), but until there are # other users than ext3, we will simply make it be the same as CONFIG_EXT3_FS # dep_tristate ' Journal Block Device support (JBD for ext3)' CONFIG_JBD $CONFIG_EXT3_FS @@ -83,8 +85,6 @@ tristate 'ROM file system support' CONFIG_ROMFS_FS -tristate 'Second extended fs support' CONFIG_EXT2_FS - tristate 'System V/Xenix/V7/Coherent file system support' CONFIG_SYSV_FS tristate 'UDF file system support (read only)' CONFIG_UDF_FS[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | ![\](/images/icornerr.gif) |