From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <390CB8C1.E2C440FD@reiser.to> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 15:50:41 -0700 From: Hans Reiser MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.3.99-pre6-7 VM rebalanced References: <20000430173948.A26377@fred.muc.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Alan Cox , Sasi Peter , riel@nl.linux.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, "Vladimir V. Saveliev" List-ID: Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 05:27:51PM +0200, Alan Cox wrote: > > > The problem with this is that even if the kernel is in .99 pre-release > > > state for several weeks _nothing_ has been changed in it about the RAID > > > stuff still, so a lot of people using 2.2 + raid 0.90 patch (eg. RedHat > > > users) _cannot_ change to and try 2.3.99, because their partitions would > > > not mount. > > > > > > It seems to me, that if we are talking about widening the testbase for > > > 2.3.99, this is the most important item on Alan's todo list. > > > > In some ways it probably is. Almost every production site I would feed stuff > > to is using raid 0.90 and some of them are now using ext3 as well. > > Here I have similar problems with reiserfs (a lot of sites use it > already, upto reiserfs root). So far the 2.3 port cannot read 2.2 > file systems. > > Andi > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ It can read 2.2 file systems, though once you mount it under 2.3 you can never go back. We are fixing that by having a -noconv mount option to prevent conversion to the new format, but the code is not done yet. Hans -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/