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SubjectRe: (reiserfs) Re: LVM / Filesystems / High availability
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 01:55:51PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> Using any of the new features will set bits in the ext2fs superblock's
> feature masks to prevent older kernels from stumbling over data they
> cannot understand, but if you delete all btree directories then e2fsck
> will be able to clear the feature bit.

It might be nice to add a feature to e2fsck such that it can 'back convert'
some of the new features like btree inodes into e2fs ver 0.5(b) features.

I'm not sure how hard that would be, but it doesn't sound like it would be
too difficult for someone familiar with the code....



-Chris


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