Volker, The reason I asked was that Rob van der Heij could not mount "old" format CDL disks on a system with the latest Red Hat 7.2 kernel: > For those who start to play with RedHat, I found that disks created > in CDL format with the SuSE 7.2 beta code could not be mounted in my > RedHat 7.2 system (latest Rawhide level).
I expect we'll see more examples of that coming up in the relatively near future. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Volker Sameske [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dasdfmt compatibility Mark, not necessarily. This change has no real impact to Linux. The only visible difference is the data set name. Here we have now PART0001 up to PART0003 instead of PART0000 up to PART0002. All other VTOC information (e.g. partition start and size) will not change. If you use these data set names, you could "update" them to the new naming schema by using fdasd, but you don't have to. It may be important for backups of single partitions, in case the naming scheme changes between backup and restore. Then a wrong partition could be overwritten. But normally if someone uses fdasd, he wants to change partitions and then his partition backups are useless anyway. regards Volker > Volker, > So, should we tell people that they should run fdasd against any "old" disks > and that the partition information will be re-written without any loss of > data? Or something else? > Mark Post
