From: chris@mshome.net   
      
   On 04/08/2021 05:51 pm, Thomas Gibson wrote:   
   > On 04/08/2021 15:08, noel wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>>>> Back to the original topic, I have slackware-current running in a VM   
   >>>>> as well.  The root filesystem is not ext2, so I can boot without the   
   >>>>> initrd.  In there, I can create an ext2 filesystem in a file, mount   
   >>>>> that, write to it, read from it,...  So, it looks like ext2 works fine   
   >>>>> in that system.  Perhaps my problem on the netbook is really with the   
   >>>>> initrd as I first thought, and the OP has something broken in his   
   >>>>> system.  I can't duplicate his ext2 problems within the VM.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Rob Komar   
   >>>>   
   >>>> current kernels dont like ext2, plain and simple   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I pulled an ol toshiba usb drive out from storage since I knew it was   
   >>>> ext2, nope, stack errors and killed at every first attempt...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> converted it to ext4,   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index,has_journal /dev/sdf1   
   >>>>   
   >>>> and voila! no errors, so its just ext2 theyve rooted up   
   >>>>   
   >>>> way to go linus...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> (im not gonna sift through 10K trolls on LKML to see if its been   
   >>>> brought up there yet.)   
   >>>>   
   >   
   >>>>   
   >>> Thanks for this. I was beginning to think it was just me. I have   
   >>> reverted back to kernel 5.12.16-smp and all is OK.   
   >>   
   >> Is there any reason youve stuck to ext2?   
   >>   
   >> I admit it took me until just last year to move from ext3 to ext4, my   
   >> earlier attempts to try ext4 were very many years ago when it was new,   
   >> too new, it was unstable, quotas did not work at all, but its matured   
   >> over the years, I'm running production servers on it and not missed a   
   >> beat.   
   >>   
   > No is the sort answer. For some reason I stuck with ext2 file systems   
   > from Slackware 3. I did not know you could convert from ext2 to ext4   
   > without a lot of rebuilding. Thanks for that. I have Slakware 15.0   
   > running on ext3 and Slackware 14.2 on ext2. I will convert soon.   
   > Thanks again   
   >   
      
   On my first Slackware (around 3) I used reiserfs; and used it's recovery   
   features.   
      
      
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