Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:37:14 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: config EXT4DEV_FS question |
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Hi,
>> something I have seen during `make oldconfig`, in fs/Kconfig we find: >> >> config EXT4DEV_FS >> ... >> >> To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The >> module will be called ext4dev. Be aware, however, that the >> filesystem of your root partition (the one containing the directory >> /) cannot be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous. >> >> Why can't this be compiled as a module when / is ext4? There are a lot >> of people out there having no filesystem code included in the kernel at >> all (includes at least SUSE users using the default vendor kernel), but >> instead have them as modules in their initramfss (what's the proper >> plural of initramfs?). What is it that makes ext4 different? > >That same paragraph is in the help text of both ext2 and ext3. It is a >bit outdated and should probably be cleaned up in all three.
Then I suggest removing the bogus part, as per following patch.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Index: linux-2.6.19-rc2/fs/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.19-rc2.orig/fs/Kconfig +++ linux-2.6.19-rc2/fs/Kconfig @@ -12,9 +12,7 @@ config EXT2_FS Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the - module will be called ext2. Be aware however that the file system - of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot - be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous. + module will be called ext2. If unsure, say Y. @@ -98,9 +96,7 @@ config EXT3_FS (available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/>). To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the - module will be called ext3. Be aware however that the file system - of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot - be compiled as a module, and so this may be dangerous. + module will be called ext3. config EXT3_FS_XATTR bool "Ext3 extended attributes" @@ -163,9 +159,7 @@ config EXT4DEV_FS features will be added to ext4dev gradually. To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The - module will be called ext4dev. Be aware, however, that the filesystem - of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot - be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous. + module will be called ext4dev. If unsure, say N. #<EOF>
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