On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 02:51 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote:
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 22:42 +0100, Peter Feuerer wrote:
Anyway, my question was not about finding a way to replace the initrd. I asked if it would be possible to add ext2 into the standard kernel's config of archlinux again. Through many ppl use ext2 anyway, e.g. for their /boot partition. And the driver is not that big (the module is 74k). I do understand, you don't want to have every little driver in the kernel, but come on, ext2 is a very common filesystem...
Ext2 is a dead filesystem and has been replaced by ext3. We don't have use for any filesystem in our kernel, as our kernel doesn't need any filesystem driver to boot. Adding ext2 as static configuration option will bring up the next question: "I don't want to use initcpio, I want to have <insert random filesystem> built in the kernel".
kay, thanks.