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From: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:34:39 +0400
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>>>>> 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