Re: retrocompatibility XFS 2.10.1 with 2.8.1 ?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 6, 2009, at 2:03 AM, Tritium Tritium  
<tritium_helium@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for you response !
>
> unfortunately , I don't know the kernel version of my Adsl Box .
> I search in documentation and I don't find any item about a  
> parameter which take a compatibility with old xfs support .
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-Eric
> Thanks and I hope see you later !
> Vince.
>
> > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:10:14 +1100
> > From: david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: tritium_helium@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > CC: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: retrocompatibility XFS 2.10.1 with 2.8.1 ?
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:04:30PM +0000, Tritium Tritium wrote:
> > > HI !
> > >
> > > In first, I 'm a french user and sorry for my very bad english ...
> > > For an Adsl Box, I want to partitionning and format my external  
> > > hard disk drive under XFS .What a good idea , isn't it ? ;o)
> > > I get my Mandriva One (I know it isn't a "professionnal"  
> > > distribution but you know the French search the simple thing !)  
> > > and use fdisk -l , gparted and mkfs.xfs /dev/xxx .
> > > With this, the adsl box reboot ! And of course it doesn't  
> > > recognize the partition.
> > > I tried with a Debian Etch XFS ... and this is a SUCCESS !
> > > When I compare XFS versions I find a 2.10.1 for Mandriva and 2.8.1  
> > > for Debian.
> > The defaults mkfs.xfs uses in 2.10.1 are different to 2.8.1. The
> > newer version enables features that are only availble in more recent
> > kernels (since about 2.6.19, IIRC), so it would seem that your ADSL
> > box has an old kernel on it that does not support the newer, faster,
> > shinier features XFS has....
> >
> > The kernel version of your ADSL box, as well as the mkfs.xfs output
> > from both distro's would help confirm this.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dave.
> > --
> > Dave Chinner
> > david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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