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

[Ronald G Minnich]

Richard Smith wrote:
>> >
>> > 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?
> 

if we just umount the ext3 cleanly, no need to do this.

I have not tried building it in, but we can try ...

ron