Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

[Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:27:20 +0100
Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 4 Jun 2009, at 11:51, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> >> 2009/6/4 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
> >>
> > ...
> >>> maybe ext4 depends on 'Broken' - as it should - and so it was not
> >>> shown in menuconfig. As it was not shown, you did not enable it.
> >>> Without enabling it,
> >>> it wasn't compiled in ....
> >>
> > ...
> >
> > Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear enough. It works if I disable the
> > "extents" mount option. ... it should  be changed only for bug  
> > fixes, not generally and it
> > should be backwards compatible with minor versions at least.  ...
> 
> I think what Volker is _trying_ to get at is that maybe ext4 isn't  
> compiled into your kernel, because maybe the options have changed in  
> the kernel's .config files between vanilla-2.6.28 and gentoo- 
> sources-2.6.29-5.
> 
> The error message you see might well be consistent with attempting
> to mount the volume using the ext3 driver.
> 
> Suggest you post the .config file against which you built your new  
> kernel.
> 
> Stroller.
> 
> 
> 
pwd
/usr/src/linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5

grep -i ext4 .config
CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
# CONFIG_EXT4DEV_COMPAT is not set
CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel