On Monday 02 February 2004 19:38, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Fred Whipple said on Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:24:24PM -0500: > > Finally, while I'm messing around with the kernel, I'd have to > > include support for ext3fs. In our environment, journaling is not > > an option, it's a base requirement. Of course replacing the kernel > > would pretty much give me kernel-level support for it. From that > > point, how complicated is it to get the rest of the tools to play > > nicely with ext3fs? I'd imagine that a large set of tools would > > need to be replaced, including e2fsck, mount, umount, etc. > > Nope. To use ext3, you just need an appropriate kernel. The ext2 > utils can turn the journal on for you once you're running a kernel > with ext3 support.
bf2.4 has ext3 support at installation time and also the 2.4 kernels in stable have ext3 support. Its works fine one ower Sparc-machines. Hans -- "How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it." -- Linus Torvalds