<html><body><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">A preliminary development version of ext4 was included in version 2.6.19<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel" title="Linux kernel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial;
background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Linux kernel</a>. On 11 October 2008, the patches that mark ext4 as stable code were merged in the Linux 2.6.28 source code repositories,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup> denoting the end of the development phase and recommending ext4 adoption. Kernel 2.6.28, containing the ext4 filesystem, was finally released on 25 December
2008</span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 11px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4</a><br></span></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: inherit; " class="yui_3_2_0_3_129188511542954">CentOS5.5 has the 2.6.18.* kernel so doesn't support ext4</div><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: inherit; "><br><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: inherit; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><div class="hr" style="border: 1px solid #ccc; line-height: 0; font-size: 0;margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" readonly="true"
contenteditable="false"></div><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'CentOS mailing list' <centos@centos.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 9, 2010 9:38:20 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [CentOS] 5.5 x86_64 live cd<br></font><br>
In the bang head and repeat mode here.<br><br>The live usb partition is /dev/sda1<br><br>Reboot / power on<br>It auto mounts the /dev/sda2 as ext4 on /mnt/disc/sda2<br>$ umount /mnt/disc/sda2<br>$ mkdir /root/foo<br>$ mke2fs /dev/sda2<br>$ mount /dev/sda2 /root/foo<br>Kernel panic<br><br>Snip from the kernel panic:<br>??????<br>list_del+0xb/0x71<br>cache_alloc_refill+0xf1/0x186<br>ext2_fill_super+0x0/0xa37<br>....<br>system_call+0x7e/0x83<br><br>--<br>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-<br>- -<br>- Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us -<br>- Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street
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