Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.37 crashes immediately | Date | Wed, 17 Jan 2001 02:24:39 -0700 (MST) |
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Stefan Ring writes: > Every version above 2.0.36 behaves the same (from the 2.0.x series). Gee, > I should have said a few words about my intent. Of course, I'm not > actually using these old versions of everything. I just wanted to run a > 2.0.x kernel to do some hardware testing, and since 2.0.x can't access the > new ext2fs with the spare superblock option, I thought, I might be up and > running fastest by installing a RH distribution still using the 2.0.x > kernel.
Actually, if you have the 2.0.39 kernel (or a pre-patch), it can use the sparse ext2 superblock feature. Even so, it is only a matter of turning the sparse_super flag on or off and running e2fsck on the filesystem to convert.
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