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Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!



> I went from the stable kernel in potatoe to 2.4.9 to 2.4.12.  I had to 
> get to 2.4.12 because 2.4.9 had some irda problems.
> 
> I won't get getting into 2.4.15 for a while yet as I'm curious to see 
> how this ext3 really shakes out and how it's used.

2.4.15-pre2 locks my box hard...

> After all, wouldn't 
> I have to reinstall everying on a new set up partitions in order to get 
> the support for ext3???

No, you just have to use tune2fs to add a journal file to each
partition, and change your fstab. ext3 is forward and backward
compatible with ext2. Oh -- you will need a recent version of e2fsprogs

J.

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