From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 04:25:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 04:25:11 -0500 Received: from [24.65.192.120] ([24.65.192.120]:45294 "EHLO webber.adilger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 04:24:57 -0500 From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200101170924.f0H9Odu04425@webber.adilger.net> Subject: Re: 2.0.37 crashes immediately In-Reply-To: "from Stefan Ring at Jan 17, 2001 10:00:31 am" To: Stefan Ring Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 02:24:39 -0700 (MST) CC: "Dr. Kelsey Hudson" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL73 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stefan Ring writes: > Every version above 2.0.36 behaves the same (from the 2.0.x series). Gee, > I should have said a few words about my intent. Of course, I'm not > actually using these old versions of everything. I just wanted to run a > 2.0.x kernel to do some hardware testing, and since 2.0.x can't access the > new ext2fs with the spare superblock option, I thought, I might be up and > running fastest by installing a RH distribution still using the 2.0.x > kernel. Actually, if you have the 2.0.39 kernel (or a pre-patch), it can use the sparse ext2 superblock feature. Even so, it is only a matter of turning the sparse_super flag on or off and running e2fsck on the filesystem to convert. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/