[OLPC-devel] Booting from uncleanly dismounted flash key.

[Richard Smith]

> >
> > Is there some way to fix this?  This feels very fragile to me.
>
> Just to be clear: this is _expected_ behaviour. Ext3 is
> backward-compatible with ext2 _if_ it's mounted uncleanly and the
> journal is clear. If there are writes outstanding in the journal then it
> is not compatible with ext2. Thus the refusal to mount, with an error
> message about incompatible features.

That may be the error I've seen.  Not sure why a reset would fix it though.

How much of as space hit are we going to take if we use ext3 rather
than ext2 in the boot kernel?

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Richard A. Smith