"Andy" == Andy Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andy> I don't know jack about LVM, but from reading other posts
Andy> and docs it seems that having the root partition on a
Andy> filesystem that is loaded as a module is generally a bad
Andy> idea.
It makes perfect sense to have ext3 as a module and use ext3 on your
root file system with an initrd image. I don't know about other file
systems, but ext3 works out because you can always read/mount it as an
ext2 FS.That is why the standard Debian 2.4.18 kernel delivers ext3 in
the initrd file.
Andy> Why don't you compile the ext3 module into the kernel?
Andy> If your root partition is ext3 compiling the driver as a
Andy> module makes little sense as it is going to used all the
Andy> time.
No. No. No! That is what the initrd image is for. It makes perfect
sense. The 2.4.18 kernels (for example) in Debian have been built so
you don't need to go compile your own kernel in 99% of the cases
without having to pay the cost of a bloated runtime kernel. The trade
off is that it takes a little longer to boot, and you use more disk
space to store all the modules. But the same standard kernel should
work for *most* users on a wide variety of hardware.
All IMHO of course ;-)
Cheers!
Shyamal
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