FC3 SMP builds do NOT contain ext3 drivers in the build!!!!

[Ed Wilts]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:48:00PM +0000, Robin Bowes wrote:
> Terry Polzin wrote:
> >On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:54, Fred Skrotzki wrote:
> >
> >
> >I've several machines running SMP, but I've to this point always made 
> >upgrades with every version.  Also I'm trying to recall...  when was ext3 
> >introduced?

ext3 was introduced in Red Hat Linux 7 I think.  I've got a production
7.2 system here that's got ext3 mount points.  My 6.2 system doesn't.
 
> I can confirm the same problem.
> 
> kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667 (stock FC3) and kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 
> (latest update) won't boot on my SMP system with root on /dev/md0.

That's not the same problem.  Your issue is trying to boot off of a
software raid volume and that's not the same as a plain old ext3 volume
at all.

Remember that ext3 volumes will mount as ext2.  You just won't have the
journal.  And yes, I have tested this.

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