Re: [reiserfs-list] Incompatibility between the reisrefs patches

[Nikita Danilov]

Vasil Kolev writes:
 > Can I use the new format with 2.2? I don't have enough space to do that...
 > I would live with the limitations ... I just want it to work :)

I am afraid you cannot. Not now at least. Sorry.

 > 
 > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Nikita Danilov wrote:
 > 
 > > Vasil Kolev writes:
 > >  > Maybe this is a know issue, but nonetheless.....
 > >  > I have dual coppermine/930 machine with 1.2G ram, kernel 2.4.5. I used
 > >  > reiserfs for my  /home and /var partitions. When tried downgrading to
 > >  > 2.2.19, I got errors  in syslog like 'can't find superblock' ... ( I don't
 > >  > have them, /var wasn't mounted, and i had to return the machine in
 > >  > production state... ). Does someone has any idea about this, how could I
 > >  > downgrade to 2.2.19 ?
 > >
 > > 2.4 kernels can work with both 3.5 reiserfs disk format (old) and 3.6
 > > (new). 2.2 kernels---only with 3.5. Probably, you have created your
 > > file-systems in the new format.
 > >
 > > You can boot 2.4 kernel, create new file-system large enough with
 > > /sbin/mkreiserfs -v1 (old format), copy existing files there by tar or
 > > cpio and then update /etc/fstab to mount file-system just created. Now,
 > > you can work both with 2.2 and 2.4 kernels.
 > >
 > > Keep in mind, that 3.5 format has some limitations concerning file size
 > > etc. Check faq at namesys.com for details. On the other hand, 3.5 often
 > > considered more stable.
 > >

Nikita.

 > >