On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> 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Ext2 is a dead filesystem and has been replaced by ext3.
Your entire rest of statement was valid, but why on earth did you make a claim like this? I have to speak up and say something here. ext2 is nowhere near dead. I use it on my /boot partition on every Linux install, and every filesystem on my Eee is currently ext2. Hardly dead- unless "stable as hell" = dead.
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".
This is a valid justification- thanks for giving the best answer on this thread yet. -Dan