Hi! Last week during a workshop I backported linux 2.6.25, nvidia drivers and e2fsprogs. You can them at http://people.teamix.net/~ms/backports/etch-backports/ in case you want to play around with it. These are highly inofficial and not meant as a replacement for official backports. I didn't bother to sign them nor to build them in a chroot and for the kernel and nvidia stuff I didn't even bother to add a changelog entry. Also e2fsprogs is not official in anyway, I probably should have used some descriptive ~backports40 than the official ~bpo40 ending. *Thus any of these packages may explode when you try to install them.* That warning said I and some students used these packages on a VMware guest and on a physical (AMD 64) machine. But we only tested the 32 bit i386 version of the kernel package. The dependencies appear reasonable to me as far as I looked. As a little goodie you can try ext4 by using these packages: - you need a kernel and e2fsprogs - modprobe ext4dev (might be done automatically by mount) - mkfs.ext3 -E test_fs /dev/some_device - mount /dev/some/device /mnt/some_mountpoint - or even better: mount -o extents /dev/some/device /mnt/some_mountpoint, but beware AFAIK after mounting with extents the filesystem is not accessible via ext3 anymore You can also set the test_fs flag via tune2fs somehow, but be careful with -o extents then ;-). Better only use it on test data anyways. No warranties whatsoever ;-). Ciao, -- Martin Steigerwald - team(ix) GmbH - http://www.teamix.de gpg: 19E3 8D42 896F D004 08AC A0CA 1E10 C593 0399 AE90
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