Re: etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

2009-03-19 Thread Ron Peterson
2009-03-19_14:22:45-0400 Sven Joachim : > > The inode size of existing filesystems is always left alone. According > to mke2fs(8) it is not even possible to change it after the filesystem > has been created. > > For the record, the etch kernel should not have any problems with 256 > byte inodes,

Re: etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

2009-03-19 Thread Ron Peterson
2009-03-19_11:59:59-0400 rpeterso: > As I understand things, lenny's ext3 implementation uses 64 bit inodes, > to be forward compatible with ext4, etc. Sorry, I meant 256 byte inodes. Same issue, despite my brain fizzle. > I have FC disks that I'd like to use on either of two servers I have. > O

Re: etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

2009-03-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-03-19 16:59 +0100, Ron Peterson wrote: > As I understand things, lenny's ext3 implementation uses 64 bit inodes, > to be forward compatible with ext4, etc. The default inode size in lenny is 256 bytes, not 64 bit. > I have FC disks that I'd like to use on either of two servers I have. >

etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

2009-03-19 Thread Ron Peterson
As I understand things, lenny's ext3 implementation uses 64 bit inodes, to be forward compatible with ext4, etc. I have FC disks that I'd like to use on either of two servers I have. One is in production, running etch. The other is new, and I'd like to use lenny. Will lenny read/write ext3 files