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From: Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openvz kernel and ext4
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:46:27
Message-Id: AANLkTiliBOXPQ-it4ZVvQqXciSmOOTSRrwVpI86WD0Zt@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] openvz kernel and ext4 by Albert Hopkins
1 sure, i do not need ext4dev, i want to use ext4 only. but i did not
2 find a compile option for ext4, i only find a option for ext4dev/ext4.
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4 the openvz i emerged is 2.6.27.6.1, which is the latest stable
5 version. is it too old? should i try newer unstable version?
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8 On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
9 > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 19:34 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
10 >> i emerged the openvz kernel, and compiled the kernel with ext4dev/ext4
11 >> file system support. but when i tried to boot my system, i got a
12 >> kernel panic. it says cannot mount my ext4 root, because it is not
13 >> marked ok to use with test code.
14 >>
15 >> my root is at a ext4 file system, and i think the ext4dev/ext4 kernel
16 >> compile option would allow me to use both ext4 and ext4dev features,
17 >> am i wrong?
18 >>
19 >> i do not want to use ext4dev on my root, neither do i want to
20 >> downgrade to ext3. is there a way to fix this?
21 >
22 > You don't need ext4dev.  ext4dev is old and, unless you've used it
23 > before, there's no need to use it today.  I'm guessing that's giving you
24 > that error (that's an old error).  It's easy to fix though (do a Google
25 > search for the error).  But it should not even occur if you've never
26 > used ext4dev, IIRC.
27 >
28 > -a
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37 Best Regards,
38 Xi Shen (David)
39
40 http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

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Re: [gentoo-user] openvz kernel and ext4 Kyle Bader <kyle.bader@×××××.com>