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Message-Id: <1161088430.14171.2.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:33:50 -0500 From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com> To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de> Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> Subject: Re: config EXT4DEV_FS question On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 01:08 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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 It is a bit outdated and should probably be cleaned up in all three. Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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