Re: ext3 clings to you like flypaper

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
17 Feb 2003 11:50:21 +0000


On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 07:04, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Added a journal to my root disk.
> Mounted it ext3.
> Found it scaled like crap
> set my fstab back to ext2
> /dev/sda2 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> reboot.
> Disk says it's mounted ext2 ("mount\n")
> Still performs like crap.
>
> Mmmmm ... it STILL mounts ext3.
> Allegedly this is a "feature".
> Can we please remove this stupidity?
>
> If I say I want ext2, I want ext2 ....

Do you expect the kernel to read your /etc/fstab before mounting the
root file system, and then obey it?

Boot with 'rootfstype=ext2' and/or tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda2

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dwmw2
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