[pkg-fso-maint] rootfstype Re: OpenMoko FreeRunner Debian installation report

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:28:00PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:40:23 +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:28:56AM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>>> Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

>>>> That's not it, it is configure-uboot.sh

>>>> "rootfstype=ext2". Changing that to rootfstype=ext3 solves the
>>>> problem.

>>> Ah. ok. I never touched the uboot parts since I don't use it. I
>>> recall that there was a constraint towards ext2 somehow - whoever
>>> could clarify the issue for the archives (again?), please step
>>> forward.

It could also be safer for SDCards that don't do wear levelling or do
it only on the beginning of the drive, not the end? I've just heard a
rumour that a few years ago that was the situation.

>> Grub has the following "problem" with ext3 (and journal filesystems in
>> general), which by similarity uboot may have: it does not know about
>> the journal, (...)

> We are talking about the rootfsype, not the /boot partition, thus
> there is no problem at all WRT the boot loader since the kernel is
> in /boot.

Right.

-- 
Lionel