call for brave ext4 testers in F9, with caveats

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Fri Feb 8 17:32:45 UTC 2008


Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>> On 2/4/08, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 3) misc stuff - I've not yet tested ext4 over an encrypted block device,
>>> or even over an lvm volume.  There may be some stack issues on x86 boxes
>>> still, I'm working on slimming that down.  I hope that more real-world
>>> use will shake out any remaining problems.
>> I temporarily lost my sanity and tried installing ex4 over an
>> encrypted lvm volume.  Of course, it didn't work, 

Oh, ye of little faith! :)

>> I get the following
>> message when it tried to mount the root partition:

FWIW, if you did this with all rawhide bits, it *should* have worked;
(rawhide) anaconda should have called (rawhide) mkfs.ext3 in a manner
which should have set the flag that the (rawhide) kernel is looking for.

This was not the case?

-Eric




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