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backwards compatible??backwards compatible??Posted Oct 13, 2008 23:51 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)Parent article: Linux Summit will preview new advanced file system (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
that's the first time I've ever seen anyone say that ext4 would be backwards compatible to ext3.
useing much of the same codebase I believe (it's mostly the same developers), but everything that I have read about ext4 indicates that there is no chance at of of being backwards compatible with ext3
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backwards compatible?? Posted Oct 14, 2008 0:13 UTC (Tue) by qg6te2 (guest, #52587) [Link] Ext4 is backwards-compatible in the sense that it can mount Ext3 partitions. Ext3, on the other hand, is not fully forwards-compatible with Ext4. The forwards-incompatability arises when an Ext3 partition is converted to use the extents feature of Ext4.
backwards compatible?? Posted Oct 14, 2008 0:15 UTC (Tue) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]
Note that this is the default when an ext3 partition is mounted as ext4!
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