On Oct 07, 2008 01:08 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > + This is the next generation of the ext3 filesystem. > > Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem, > + the on-disk format of ext4 is not backwardscompatible with Actually, it is not _forwards_ compatible with ext2/ext3 drivers, but it is most certainly _backwards_ compatible with older ext3 filesystems. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- 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