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Re: Problem with ReiserFS
From: |
Jochen Hoenicke |
Subject: |
Re: Problem with ReiserFS |
Date: |
Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:00:33 +0100 (MET) |
On Feb 1, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:03:03PM +0100, Adrian Phillips wrote:
> > >>>>> "Thierry" == Thierry Laronde <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > Thierry> The problem is not related to grub. IIRC, now reiserfs is
> > Thierry> included in the new linux 2.4.1 _but_ the previous
> > Thierry> reiserfs is incompatible with the new one used with the
> > Thierry> kernel, that is, previous reiserfs file systems don't
> > Thierry> work with new linux kernel (that's what I read, even if I
> > Thierry> can't remember where).
That was true for the series of 3.6.xx patches for the 2.3 and pre-2.4
kernels. The developer promised to include 3.5.xx support again, when
the development was finished. But I haven't looked at the 2.4 stable
releases yet.
> > 2.4.1 has reiserfs which supports fs format 3.6 but can
> > also handle format 3.5.
>
> And for previous ones (I suppose there are some 3.4 or others) ?
The patches for 2.2.xx kernels were versioned 3.5.xx, the patches for
2.3/2.4 kernels were versioned 3.6.xx. Grub supports both major
versions.
Jochen