Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2001 18:00:00 +0400 | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-list] Incompatibility between the reisrefs patches for 2.2.x and 2.4.x |
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Vasil Kolev writes: > Can I use the new format with 2.2? I don't have enough space to do that... > I would live with the limitations ... I just want it to work :)
I am afraid you cannot. Not now at least. Sorry.
> > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Nikita Danilov wrote: > > > Vasil Kolev writes: > > > Maybe this is a know issue, but nonetheless..... > > > I have dual coppermine/930 machine with 1.2G ram, kernel 2.4.5. I used > > > reiserfs for my /home and /var partitions. When tried downgrading to > > > 2.2.19, I got errors in syslog like 'can't find superblock' ... ( I don't > > > have them, /var wasn't mounted, and i had to return the machine in > > > production state... ). Does someone has any idea about this, how could I > > > downgrade to 2.2.19 ? > > > > 2.4 kernels can work with both 3.5 reiserfs disk format (old) and 3.6 > > (new). 2.2 kernels---only with 3.5. Probably, you have created your > > file-systems in the new format. > > > > You can boot 2.4 kernel, create new file-system large enough with > > /sbin/mkreiserfs -v1 (old format), copy existing files there by tar or > > cpio and then update /etc/fstab to mount file-system just created. Now, > > you can work both with 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. > > > > Keep in mind, that 3.5 format has some limitations concerning file size > > etc. Check faq at namesys.com for details. On the other hand, 3.5 often > > considered more stable. > >
Nikita.
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