Re: webadmin-devel digest, Vol 1 #146 - 1 msg

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Klaus Steinberger wrote:
> 
> > Also, a beta version of the next Webmin release is available at
> >
> > http://www.webmin.com/devel/tarballs/webmin-0.955.tar.gz
> > or
> > http://www.webmin.com/devel/rpm/webmin-0.955-1.noarch.rpm
> >
> > This includes a new LVM module, as well as some fairly major changes
> > to the way foreign function calls work in order to speed up the modules
> > that use them. If anyone finds any bugs in the new code, please tell me
> > about them before the next official release :-)
> 
> That's great!
> 
> A little bug I found: On Redhat 7.2 Systems the LVM Module does not
> offer to create etx3 filesystems. Lurking through the code, I found
> that lvm module looks for the existence of mkfs.ext3 or mke3fs,
> which both do not exist on RH 7.2 (or probably any newer ext3 capable
> system).
> 
> On RH7.2 or probably also other ext3 capable systems the creation of
> ext3 filesystems is done through the ext2 mkfs programs, just with
> addition of "-j" Switch. Probably we have to look for version
> information of mke2fs? But starting with which version does it support ext3?
> 
> Or we should scan /proc/filesystems for available filesystem types,
> but this has also an pitfall, a filesystem type for an not yet loaded
> fs module is not shown.

Thanks for that info - I installed mke3fs separately, not realizing
that the mkfs.ext2 command could do the job as well! In the next
webmin release the code will run  mkfs.ext2 -h  and check for the -j flag
to figure out if ext3 is supported or not ..

 - Jamie