From: Stephen Isard (S.IsardDeleteThis@ed.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 20 2001 - 16:27:51 CEST
Michele Andreoli wrote:
> I'm having considerables troubles making muLinux's archives under my
> Debian, kernel 2.4.9.
> I tried to remake ROOT.gz and USR.bz2 for the v12.1 (already published),
> but I anytimes obtain random and strange results:
That does sound bad. I've done a quick search for mentions of
incompatibility between versions of ext2 for different kernels, and not
come up with anything. I did see one piece of correspondence where it
was claimed that ext2 for 2.4 kernels was intended to be compatible with
earlier versions. Maybe you could post a test for people with access to
2.4 kernels to run, to see if it is a problem with your particular
debian, or more general.
> Obiously, for the ext2's developers, 10-20k aren't important.
No, probably not, but they ought to be worried by random fluctuations of
+-10k, or indeed +- anything from identical mkfs commands.
I think the most crucial thing is for it to be possible to maintain
mulinux on machines running mulinux. From what I read, it looks as if
the big distributions will soon be using ext3 or other new developments
anyway.
Regards,
Stephen Isard
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