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From: Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:17:21
Message-Id: 20090604151716.674f2bbf@ilievnet.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4 by Stroller
1 On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:27:20 +0100
2 Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3
4 >
5 > On 4 Jun 2009, at 11:51, Daniel Iliev wrote:
6 > >> 2009/6/4 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
7 > >>
8 > > ...
9 > >>> maybe ext4 depends on 'Broken' - as it should - and so it was not
10 > >>> shown in menuconfig. As it was not shown, you did not enable it.
11 > >>> Without enabling it,
12 > >>> it wasn't compiled in ....
13 > >>
14 > > ...
15 > >
16 > > Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear enough. It works if I disable the
17 > > "extents" mount option. ... it should be changed only for bug
18 > > fixes, not generally and it
19 > > should be backwards compatible with minor versions at least. ...
20 >
21 > I think what Volker is _trying_ to get at is that maybe ext4 isn't
22 > compiled into your kernel, because maybe the options have changed in
23 > the kernel's .config files between vanilla-2.6.28 and gentoo-
24 > sources-2.6.29-5.
25 >
26 > The error message you see might well be consistent with attempting
27 > to mount the volume using the ext3 driver.
28 >
29 > Suggest you post the .config file against which you built your new
30 > kernel.
31 >
32 > Stroller.
33 >
34 >
35 >
36 pwd
37 /usr/src/linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5
38
39 grep -i ext4 .config
40 CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
41 # CONFIG_EXT4DEV_COMPAT is not set
42 CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y
43 CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
44 CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y
45
46 --
47 Best regards,
48 Daniel

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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4 Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>