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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Ext3 support is provided in the 2.4.7-10 kernel, but is NOT supported in the standard linux 2.4.x kernel tree!!!!!!!! This is dumb! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: If one migrates to ext3, then tried to upgrade the kernel, guess what? Standard "vanilla" kernels (the latest being 2.4.13) do not support ext3 filesystems. And, in the shipped kernel, it is marked as EXPERIMENTAL!!! Why the hell would RedHat ship a distro fully touting an experimental, non supported file system. This must be removed immediately until suport for ext3 is in the stanard kernel. Additional info:
The ext3 file system has been through large amounts of stress testing in the Red Hat release kernels. These are stress tests the vanilla kernel even without ext3 simply crashes and burns under. All technology we use and incorporate is extensively verified by both the engineering and QA team. We feel confident in our QA engineering. The ext3 file system should be in Linus tree for 2.4.14/15. It was delayed by the fact that Linus and Andrea chose to rewrite the virtual memory subsystem for the mainstream kernel Mainstream kernel schedules are beyond our control and this means we may often ship device drivers or other fixes before Linus merges them mainstream. Alan