On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > On Sep/26/2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > > I think that maybe he refers to the fact that, for example, you may > > > have formatted your ext2 partitions so they are incompatible with 2.0.x > > Well, I once heared about this, but never read an explanation what > > exactly causes the differences in the ext2 partitions created while > > running a 2.0.x kernel and why they have been introduced. > > The features are documented in mke2fs(8), under "-O" (or it seems, for > what I've seen). They don't seem to be too useful (unless I'm missing > something), but anyway they are there.
IIRC ext2 filesystems created with sparse_super mount a lot faster than filesystems created without that option. Ext2 mounts of 20+ Gig filesystems took ages. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred. | : :' : By professionals, | `. `' for professionals http://www.palfrader.org/ | `- http://www.debian.org/