On Jan 6, 2009, at 2:03 AM, Tritium Tritium 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 . Log in and type uname -a -Eric > > Thanks and I hope see you later ! > Vince. > >> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:10:14 +1100 >> From: david@fromorbit.com >> To: tritium_helium@hotmail.com >> CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com >> 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@fromorbit.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Téléphonez gratuitement à tous vos proches avec Windows Live > Messenger ! Téléchargez-le maintenant ! > http://www.windowslive.fr/messenger/1.asp > > [[HTML alternate version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@oss.sgi.com > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs