[gentoo-user] Flash drive and file systems

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Hello,

I'm building up a P3 as a firewall, using 4 GB Compact Flash
to IDE as the hard drive (SANDISK). I've done this before
and it works great.

The kernel is gentoo-30-r5 and it does not support EXT2.
I have already formatted the Flash as EXT2:

Disk /dev/hda: 4110 MB, 4110188544 bytes
128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 995 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1          25      100768+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2              26          88      254016   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3              89         995     3657024   83  Linux

# mke2fs /dev/hda1
# mke2fs /dev/hda3


Now building the sources, there is no ext2 any more?

Any suggestions (just use ext3 for flash?)
Grab and old kernel source? (which one?)


Under gentoo-30-r5 --> file systems

<*> Ext3 journalling file system support                            
<*>   Default to 'data=ordered' in ext3 (legacy option) 
< >   Ext3 extended attributes 
< >   Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists
< >   Ext3 Security Labels

And leave every thing else blank?
 
Under --> file systems--> misc filesys

< >   BFS file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)                        
< >   EFS file system support (read only) (EXPERIMENTAL)   
< >   Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)  


Any suggestions are most welcome.


James