On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > b) what happens when an old ext2 driver tries to read and/or write this > directory entry? Do we need a compat flag for it? Old ext2 only supports up to 4k include/linux/ext2_fs.h: #define EXT2_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE 1024 #define EXT2_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 4096 #define EXT2_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10 Should fail to mount the volume since the block size is too large. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html