Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

[Alex Tomas]

>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

 JG> And thus, inodes are progressively incompatible with older
 JG> kernels. Boot into an older kernel, and you can now only read half
 JG> your filesystem (if it even allows mount at all).

nope, you aren't allowed to mount fs with extents-enabled files
by ext3 which has no the feature compiled in. the same will
happen if you call it ext4.

thanks, Alex
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