AW: Re: ext3 Filessyten in FC5-Test incompatible with other FC or RHEL versions
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Fri Dec 23 08:23:59 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 21:18 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:31:03PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 14:47 +0100, gsc.news at online.de wrote:
> > > >If I recall, there was a change in the ext2 utilities from FC3 to FC4
> > > >which fsils with earlier distro created partitions.
> > > >
> > > >I believe you need to disable filechecking with the entries in your
> > > >fstab file. That is, change the last two digits in your older distros
> > > >to zero.
> > > >Alternatively, you could mount the other OS partitions whenever you need
> > > >to access the files on the common partitions..
> > > >
> > > >Are you talking about a common /home partition?
> > >
> > > Yes, and therefore, I can't use my privous installations anymore.
> >
> > that sounds nasty; maybe fedora should turn off MLS for now until
> > there's a better compatibility?
>
> The latest FC4 update kernel can read MLS labelled filesystems without problem.
> I've not checked FC3, that one might be a little more tricky, as the compat code
> requires changes that have happened post 2.6.12 (where FC3 is currently sat).
> Given the effort required to make that work, the limited time remaining in the
> FC3 lifetime, and the low general appeal of such a feature, it probably won't
> get fixed
given that even RHEL4 can't get compatibility code.. why go through this
pain in the first place? Is MLS a compelling enough feature for fedora
to go through this pain? Is it even used for something or by someone in
the first place?
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