From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965282AbWFIOct (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:32:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965278AbWFIOct (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:32:49 -0400 Received: from [80.71.248.82] ([80.71.248.82]:61128 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965269AbWFIOcs (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:32:48 -0400 X-Comment-To: Jeff Garzik To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Alex Tomas , Christoph Hellwig , Mingming Cao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060609091327.GA3679@infradead.org> <44898476.80401@garzik.org> From: Alex Tomas Organization: HOME In-Reply-To: <44898476.80401@garzik.org> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:23:50 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:34:39 +0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: JG> And thus, inodes are progressively incompatible with older JG> kernels. Boot into an older kernel, and you can now only read half JG> your filesystem (if it even allows mount at all). nope, you aren't allowed to mount fs with extents-enabled files by ext3 which has no the feature compiled in. the same will happen if you call it ext4. thanks, Alex From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Tomas Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:34:39 +0400 Message-ID: References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060609091327.GA3679@infradead.org> <44898476.80401@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Mingming Cao , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Tomas Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <44898476.80401@garzik.org> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:23:50 -0400") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: ext2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: ext2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org >>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: JG> And thus, inodes are progressively incompatible with older JG> kernels. Boot into an older kernel, and you can now only read half JG> your filesystem (if it even allows mount at all). nope, you aren't allowed to mount fs with extents-enabled files by ext3 which has no the feature compiled in. the same will happen if you call it ext4. thanks, Alex