RedHat 7.2 & Kernel 2.2.20?

[David]

Hi there,

Just want to know if it sencefull to use RedHat 7.2 with a 2.2.20 Linux
Kernel?

If so, does the following works:
Kernel 2.2.20
ext3 journaling fs
pppoe

If it is unsencfull, please give me reasons why to use a 2.4 kernel.

Thank you for your tips in avance!

David

[Derek Meek]

i doubt 2.2.20 supports ext3 - why don't you use the newer kernel

[David]

2.2.20 is the most secure kernel at the moment and I don't need the usb
stuff eighter iptables and a lot of the other new features...

So you think it's better to compile the newest kernel on the machine with
ext3?

David

"Derek Meek" <whit...@cedar-rapids.net> wrote in message
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[Florian Schaefer]

Hi David,

David wrote:
> Just want to know if it sencefull to use RedHat 7.2 with a 2.2.20 Linux
> Kernel?

I'm running a RedHat 7.1 server with 2.2.19 kernel.

> If so, does the following works:
> Kernel 2.2.20

2.2.19 works, the changes in 2.2.20 shouldn't breat anything, but I
haven't tried it myself yet.

> ext3 journaling fs

You have to patch the 2.2 series for ext2 support. There is an ext3
patch for 2.2.19 and as I have heard it should work with 2.2.20, too.
But you may need to patch some rejects manually as some of the offsets
could have changed.

> pppoe

This I have to leave to someone else to answer. I just know that it
works with 2.4.

> If it is unsencfull, please give me reasons why to use a 2.4 kernel.

Hm, bigger kernel sources? ;-)

Ciao
Florian

[Bill K.]

You may not need ext3 support. Try changing the /etc/fstab file to mount
as ext2. It words with 2.4.x kernels that don't support ext3.

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