Subject: Re: Upgrading YDL2.1 to ext3 or xfs or reiserfs
From: Dan Cook (inundata@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 04:16:03 MST
I just installed YDL with the newest ISO, and I think that the kernel is
2.4.10a... Will that work?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain Stevenson" <iain@iainstevenson.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: Upgrading YDL2.1 to ext3 or xfs or reiserfs
>
> ext3 is a fairly straightforward upgrade, reiserfs is not. YDL was going
> to publish a HOWTO on converting to ext3 but I'm not sure if it's been
done
> - check the YDL site first!
>
> ext3 is now a part of the Linux kernel but it still needs to be enabled
> within the kernel. If you have an old kernel it will not be present so
> upgrading to ext3 will require a kernel change or rebuild. Grabbing the
> latest YDL kernel may be your easiest option.
>
> Some instructions for upgrading filesystens to ext3 can be found here:
>
> http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/index.html
>
> However, with a new kernel, you don't need to do any patching, just build
> the journal file etc.
>
> Iain
>
>
>
>
>
> --On Friday, February 15, 2002 10:03 am +0000 Dan Cook
> <inundata@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed YDL2.1, and now have a usable system (thank you Neill).
> >
> > I have had some bad experiences in the past with LinuxPPC and ext2, so I
> > would like to convert my current install of YDL2.1 to an xfs, ext3, or
> > reiserfs file system (basically any journaling filesystem that won't
just
> > die on me, like ext2 and LinuxPPC did).
> >
> > Does anyone have a link to a HOWTO on this, or would be able to provide
> > instructions targeted at a newbie?
> >
> > =================
> > Thanks for reading,
> > Dan Cook
> > =================
> >
>
>
>
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