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List:       linux-xfs
Subject:    Re: retrocompatibility XFS 2.10.1 with 2.8.1 ?
From:       Eric Sandeen <sandeen () sandeen ! net>
Date:       2009-01-06 15:00:33
Message-ID: 3CEF371F-8849-416C-B166-9826D6A83EFE () sandeen ! net
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On Jan 6, 2009, at 2:03 AM, Tritium Tritium  
<tritium_helium@hotmail.com> 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 .

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-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
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