EXT2 or reiserfs for the root during bootup. confusing!
I used to put "notail" option in /etc/fstab in the "/" formated by mkreiserfs. I thought that that option is not necessary from some time ago. Well, today, I noticed that the (2.6x at least) booting assumes that / must be ext2 if I look at /var/log/boot.msg. <7>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Yet it IS reiserfs. and apparently, reiserfs still works (or maybe not infrequently) What is going on? I noticed that if I do not choose ext2, during make xconfig, nothing works. That is what I know. Thanks for any info. Hugh
On Sunday 08 February 2004 21.46, Hugh wrote:
I used to put "notail" option in /etc/fstab in the "/" formated by mkreiserfs. I thought that that option is not necessary from some time ago.
Well, today, I noticed that the (2.6x at least) booting assumes that / must be ext2 if I look at /var/log/boot.msg.
<7>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Yet it IS reiserfs. and apparently, reiserfs still works (or maybe not infrequently)
What is going on?
You're using an initial ramdisk, which is formatted with an ext2 file system. This ramdisk is mounted as the root file system as the first step in the boot after the kernel is loaded into memory.
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