Removing it after rebooting in to 2.4 is definitely a posibility. However, the "elegant" solution in the scenario here is to do it before hand. I was wondering if it was possible. I guess the most logical route to go would be to have a run-once script that deletes these directories when 2.4 boots.
Thanks for you help Jeff. Regards, Nick On 5/10/05, Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The only way to remove this directory under a 2.6 kernel is to rebuild > the kernel without extended attributes enabled. The .reiserfs_priv > directory is special and hidden. The problem you're running into is > similar to mounting an ext3 filesystem as ext2 using a kernel from > before ext3 was written. It doesn't know how to use it, and so it just > doesn't hide the directory. > > The 2.6 kernels, when it's possible that the directory will be used (ie: > xattrs enabled, read-write), creates the directory if it doesn't exist. > So, as soon as you mount the filesystem on another 2.6 system, the > directory will be recreated unless you've disabled xattrs at compile time. > > What's the problem with simply removing the directory once you've > mounted the filesystem under your 2.4 kernel? > > - -Jeff > > - -- > Jeff Mahoney > SuSE Labs > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCgN9ILPWxlyuTD7IRAuT+AJ4vi8Q8Z+bx80A4AXoBpo5wa7zzjQCbBYb2 > jVZbGVsMgcZmcwvZ/WVWcVY= > =DfF3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
