Gene Heskett wrote: > Now, let me ask the other question I've muttered about. I'm currently > running 2.6.24-rc5 here, home built of course. > > In the kernel config, I don't see an option I can set that will switch it > from > using the ide drivers to using the libata stuff. This of course will mean > I have to label everything in the system with tune2fs and edit my fstab > and grub.conf as I go, but it seems to me that would solve my cross > mounting > problems a lot cleaner than futzing with everything else. So how do I > enable these new libata operations in a locally built kernel? > > That is tonight's question. It seems to me that there are two quite separate issues here - LABELing partitions, and using libata. You can use LABELs with the old ide setup, and it seems to me more sensible to do that first. Incidentally, is tune2fs ths normal way to label partitions? I always use e2label.
