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[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Frank-Michael Fischer <fmfischer@xxxxxxx> writes:

> from /var/log/boot.omsg after a 10.2 RC1 boot:
>
> "<4>ext2: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag."
>
> 1. Is there a module from "Novell" handling ext2 file systems at all? If
> so: is it patented? ;-)


> 2. If not what is Novell's problem with ext2 file systems? In older
> machines e.g it can make perfect sense to set up an ext2 /boot
> partition. It makes also sense for "ro" partitions. Did I miss something
> here? I always thought ext2 is supported under GPL.
>
> Appreciating any enlightenment on this issue.

Please file a bugreport.

We modularized ext2 and forgot to mark this as supported.  This is
really more for the enterprise distributions but it should be set here
as well,

Andreas
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