2009-03-19_14:45:02-0400 rpeterso: > As I understand it, debian lenny's ext3 filesystem uses 256 byte inodes, > to be forward compatible with ext4. > > I have a production server running debian etch. It is attached to a > fiber channel array, on which it has several ext3 filesystems. I'm > installing a new server, and I'd like to use lenny. It will be attached > to the same array, and I'd like to be able to occasionally use the ext3 > filesystems created previously. Ideally, I'd also like to go the other > direction as well. Is this possible, or just crazy talk? If I understand what I'm reading correctly, this is a non-problem. Any recent 2.6 kernel should understand ext3 filesystems with 256 byte inodes just fine. The only thing that has happened is that the latest debian stable defaults to using 256 byte inodes rather than 128. Is that correct? Are there any gotcha's here that I should be aware of? TIA -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso facebook: http://tinyurl.com/d63r5c - I wish my computer would do what I want it to do - not what I tell it to do. -- 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
