Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:48:55 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: ext3 clings to you like flypaper |
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>> Added a journal to my root disk. >> Mounted it ext3. >> Found it scaled like crap >> set my fstab back to ext2 >> /dev/sda2 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 >> reboot. >> Disk says it's mounted ext2 ("mount\n") >> Still performs like crap. >> >> Mmmmm ... it STILL mounts ext3. >> Allegedly this is a "feature". >> Can we please remove this stupidity? >> > If I say I want ext2, I want ext2 ....
Got several replies saying more or less the same thing ...
> Do you expect the kernel to read your /etc/fstab before mounting the > root file system, and then obey it?
No, but it remounts the disk read-write after it mounts it read-only. It can switch from ext2 to ext3 at that point.
> Boot with 'rootfstype=ext2'
That works, but I don't see why I should have to specify additional commandline options.
> and/or tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda2
Can't - it refuses to touch the disk it's standing on even in single user. This makes it extremely difficult to revert.
And in answer to some other questions:
This machine can't boot off CD, so rescue disks are not an option. It's remote anyway, and I shouldn't have to screw around with it to do this. I'm not using initrd
The point remains, if I say I want ext2, I should get ext2, not whatever some random developer decides he thinks I should have. Worst of all, the system then lies to you and says it's mounted ext2 when it's not.
M.
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