Re: [boot-floppies] `mke2fs' and new Linux 2.2 ext2 features ?
Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:
> How is this issue going to affect the users?
It's hard for us to say exactly. Hence, I tend to be rather
conservative.
> E.g.: Can one boot up a slink system then access a /home directory on a
> potato built fs.
If the 2.2 ext2fs features are enabled, no, I don't believe you could.
I'm leaving those features off by default...
> Is there a documented right way and wrong way of
> upgrading to the new filesystem features.
I don't know -- you'd have to take it up with the e2fsprogs guys.
> Where does this ext2 to ext2+ switch fall on a scale that goes from
> "users should not be compelled" to "users should be compelled" to
> upgrade old systems?
"should not be" IMHO.
> Does this upgrade require user intervention?
> - if not then maybe do it in the background, over time?
I don't know -- you'd have to take it up with the e2fsprogs guys.
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