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ext2 - ext3 - ext4

ext2 - ext3 - ext4

Posted Jun 18, 2006 11:31 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: ext2 - ext3 - ext4 by ekj
Parent article: Time for ext4?

I would except a kernel with support for ext3 to be able to mount a ext3 filesystems. Everything else is, imho, lunacy.
In that case ext2 and ext3 have always been lunatic. There have always been flags in the superblock indicating features that the fs driver must possess before the FS can be mounted read-only, and features that it must possess before the FS can be mounted writable.


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