[poky] Strange ext filesystem error

[Anders Darander]

On 27 okt 2011, at 02:24, "Tom Rini" <tom.rini at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>> I've noticed this behaviour on my Poky/Yocto based systems.
>> First, I format some device, in this case an MMC card, as ext3
>> (yes, my kernel supports ext3)
>>  # mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1
>> Then, when I go to mount it, I get this error:
>>  # mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /tmp/disk
>>  EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p1): warning: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
>> 
>> Any ideas why?  How can I get ext3 file system working?
> 
> Sounds like once again the file mount uses to guess types is out of order.
> I think it's part of base-files but I don't have a chance to check right now...

Yes, that's the case.
It's also out of order in upstream oe-core, as compared to the old oe-dev.

Cheers,
Anders