[final] Re: [patch-2.4.0-test13-pre3] rootfs (2nd attempt)

2000-12-18 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Andreas Dilger wrote: > If I could add one thing here (we have had a 2.2 patch like this for testing > with ext3) - if you specify the rootfstype parameter don't use the "quiet" > option to read_super, so you know why it couldn't mount a specific filesystem > as root, and/or p

Re: [patch-2.4.0-test13-pre3] rootfs (2nd attempt)

2000-12-18 Thread Andreas Dilger
Tigran, you write: > Thanks to suggestions from Andries and Peter I enhanced the rootfs patch > to do the same it did before + panic when rootfs= is given but failed to If I could add one thing here (we have had a 2.2 patch like this for testing with ext3) - if you specify the rootfstype paramete

Oops Re: [patch-2.4.0-test13-pre3] rootfs (2nd attempt)

2000-12-18 Thread Tigran Aivazian
just a typo in the comment, sorry. Corrected version below. diff -urN -X dontdiff linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt rootfs/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt --- linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Tue Sep 5 21:51:14 2000 +++ rootfs/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Mon Dec

[patch-2.4.0-test13-pre3] rootfs (2nd attempt)

2000-12-18 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Linus, Thanks to suggestions from Andries and Peter I enhanced the rootfs patch to do the same it did before + panic when rootfs= is given but failed to match the userspace mount(8) behaviour. Also other cleanups mentioned in the thread are all incorporated (well, at least the sensible ones).