Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:49:39 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> However, as long as that is warranted, I don't see any problem with
> 2.x having a different disk format than 2.y. (As long as such is
> clearly advertised)
And providing you can convert back and forth on the fly, either with a tool
or kernel code (a tool like fsck doing it seems the most sensible)
With ext2, you can make 2.2 and 2.4 fs's that 2.0 cannot mount, but the 2.0
format will be read/written and left in a state 2.0 can mount by normal use
in 2.2/2.4.
.... and you can use tune2fs followed by e2fsck to convert a newer ext2
filesystem image to one which is palatable for Linux 2.0, if that's
necessary.
- Ted
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