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Commit 3c4cec65 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara
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ext3: Improve error message that changing journaling mode on remount is not possible

This patch makes the error message about changing journaling mode on remount
more descriptive. Some people are going to hit this error now due to commit
bbae8bcc

 if they configure a kernel to default
to data=writeback mode. The problem happens if they have data=ordered set for
the root filesystem in /etc/fstab but not in the kernel command line (and they
don't use initrd). Their filesystem then gets mounted as data=writeback by
kernel but then their boot fails because init scripts won't be able to remount
the filesystem rw. Better error message will hopefully make it easier for them
to find the error in their setup and bother us less with error reports :).

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
parent 6d418076
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