Edward Shishkin wrote:
David Masover wrote:
Ok, please explain what this actually means for users.
How will an FS made by the current reiser4progs be different than
that made by the new (patched) ones that will be coming out? Is the
new way better? If so, how can one take an existing FS and
convert/update/tweak it to the new way?
This is a common scenario:
Each disk reiser4 is supposed to be supported by all kernel/reiser4.
I was wrong here: the only last version of kernel/reiser4 is able
to support _all_ disk file systems. Old kernels will refuse to mount
file systems of new versions with the warning about wrong plugin set
of root inode.
Edward.
Both kernel and reiser4progs have a plugin table which should be
upgraded in sync.
For each point A of upgrading the plugin table all reiser4progs of
versions < A
become invalid for disk reiser4 being once mounted in the
kernel/reiser4 of version >= A.
Is it okay?
Perhaps introducing a special sub-versions of reiser4/reiser4progs for
upgrading
the plugin table will improve the situation..
Edward.
