Re: (reiserfs) Re: New Linux 2.5 - 2.6 TODO (Alan Cox suggests delaying

From: Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 08:06:59 EST

On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:50:02PM +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > Get your RedHat 6.2 and plug in a 2.0 kernel and then even winblows will seem
> > stable in comparison!
>
> It works and its reliable although you have to tweak a few tools to get the
> 2.0 back compatibility in ps and friends quite right

You just might have to reformat all your ext2 partitions because the
on-disk-format changed ;-> Same thing can happen with 2.4 

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