does prebuilt vmlinux-2.4.10-12a from YDL2.1 support ext3?

[Bill Fink]

On Fri May 24 2002, R Shapiro wrote:

> Does the standard vmlinux-2.4.10-12a from YDL2.1 support ext3?  If it
> doesn't, can I safely mount my ext3 volumes as if they were ext2 (of
> course with the understanding that journaling won't be enabled)?  If I
> can't safely mount an ext3 volume as ext2, can I permanently change it
> back back to ext2 (safely)?

EXT3 is enabled in the .config associated with the stock YDL 2.1 2.4.10-12a
kernel, and I just checked and there are ext3 symbols in the 2.4.10-12a
kernel and System.map, so I think you can assume that it does in fact have
ext3 support built-in.

On the other part, no you definitely do not want to mount an ext3 file
system as ext2.  I believe you can convert back by doing a forced fsck
on an unmounted file system and then changing its type to ext2 before
remounting it, but don't take my word on that as I'm not sure and have
never actually tried doing that (i.e. I would do some investigation on
the web before attempting this).

						-Bill