1. 24 Aug, 2009 2 commits
    • Jan Kara's avatar
      ext3: Improve error message that changing journaling mode on remount is not possible · 3c4cec65
      Jan Kara authored
      This patch makes the error message about changing journaling mode on remount
      more descriptive. Some people are going to hit this error now due to commit
      bbae8bcc if they configure a kernel to default
      to data=writeback mode. The problem happens if they have data=ordered set for
      the root filesystem in /etc/fstab but not in the kernel command line (and they
      don't use initrd). Their filesystem then gets mounted as data=writeback by
      kernel but then their boot fails because init scripts won't be able to remount
      the filesystem rw. Better error message will hopefully make it easier for them
      to find the error in their setup and bother us less with error reports :).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      3c4cec65
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext3: Update Kconfig description of EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED · 6d418076
      Theodore Ts'o authored
      The old description for this configuration option was perhaps not
      completely balanced in terms of describing the tradeoffs of using a
      default of data=writeback vs. data=ordered.  Despite the fact that old
      description very strongly recomended disabling this feature, all of
      the major distributions have elected to preserve the existing 'legacy'
      default, which is a strong hint that it perhaps wasn't telling the
      whole story.
      
      This revised description has been vetted by a number of ext3
      developers as being better at informing the user about the tradeoffs
      of enabling or disabling this configuration feature.
      
      Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      6d418076
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