Ext. 3 FS driver being removed from kernel

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ChuangTzu
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Ext. 3 FS driver being removed from kernel

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From the Linux kernel mailing list:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/15/438
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Re: Ext. 3 FS driver being removed from kernel

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That's all right, everyone knows that Salix users are "Lazy Slackers" and thus, being lazy, take the defaults. Which in this case is XFS :)
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Re: Ext. 3 FS driver being removed from kernel

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Well, this doesn't mean much really. Ext3/2 will still be supported, it's just that the ext4 driver will support those, instead of the ext3 driver, as ext4 is a superset of ext3. I think it's been like that for a while too.
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Re: Ext. 3 FS driver being removed from kernel

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is this

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[    2.467349] EXT3-fs (sdb2): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240)
[    2.467625] EXT2-fs (sdb2): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240)
result of driver removing? I use salix mate with kernel 4.1.4 on ext4 fs

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Re: Ext. 3 FS driver being removed from kernel

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No, this is the exact opposite. These messages show because the kernel tries to use the ext3 (and ext2) modules to access an ext4 partition. If the ext3/ext2 modules are removed, the messages will stop showing.
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Re: Ext. 3 FS driver being removed from kernel

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Put "rootfstype=ext4" on your boot command line and it should go away.
# Append any additional kernel parameters:

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append="quiet vt.default_utf8=1 rootfstype=ext4" 
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djemos wrote:Put "rootfstype=ext4" on your boot command line and it should go away.
thanks for valuable hint. the warning didn't disappear. I reinstalled os and went back to xfs fs.

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