On Apr 07, 2005 16:32 +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 17:13, Allen Ziegenfus wrote: > > So are the ext3 drivers not backward compatible? > > They should be fully compatible all the way back to the 2.2 kernel (2.0 > if you force version 1 superblocks on disk.) The one exception I'm aware of is that ext3 + SELinux creates EAs on symlinks and that confuses older 2.4 kernels into thinking the symlink is a "slow" one, dereferecing the content of the symlink as block numbers. That was fixed in later 2.4 kernels, though not sure when. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
