On 2009-03-19 16:59 +0100, Ron Peterson wrote: > As I understand things, lenny's ext3 implementation uses 64 bit inodes, > to be forward compatible with ext4, etc.
The default inode size in lenny is 256 bytes, not 64 bit. > I have FC disks that I'd like to use on either of two servers I have. > One is in production, running etch. The other is new, and I'd like to > use lenny. Will lenny read/write ext3 filesystems created on etch in > such a way that I can still use the filesystem on etch? I imagine going > the other way would be impossible. The inode size of existing filesystems is always left alone. According to mke2fs(8) it is not even possible to change it after the filesystem has been created. For the record, the etch kernel should not have any problems with 256 byte inodes, but etch's grub version cannot deal with them, see http://bugs.debian.org/463236. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
