Subject: Re: Large filesystems, yet again
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/02/2006 07:32:18
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 07:35:40PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >a 3.0 kernel and leave the rest of the machine running 2.0?  That would
> >make it a lot more practical to test 3.0 quickly.  In particular, can I
> >use the GENERIC kernel from the 3.0 install ISO, or does that one not
> >have 2.0 compat in it?
>=20
> Definitely worth trying. I would file a PR with all that information.

Please also make sure to test with a 3.0 fsck binary.  I recall some
fsck fixes at some point, and even if they're not your root cause,
they might be confusing the issue further.  You could get at least
that far just booting off a 3.0 install floppy.

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Dan.
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