[wplug] RedHat 7 and Reiserfs

[Jonathan Billings]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, edstef wrote:

> Could gcc 2.96 be the culprit, and if so what can or should I do about it?

Yes, RH 7 has an unstable gcc, this probably is your problem.  

> While I am griping about Red Hat, what about the extensions that got added 
> to ext2 that make the fs I create on Red Hat 7.0 not mountable by my 
> slakware?  Is this new "feature" common to other disto's too?

ext2 has changed over the years.  it used to be the block size was
constant at 1024, but now you can have variable block size, and redhat
usually uses 4096 for larger disks.  Since older distros don't know about
this change, they won't be able to mount these partitions.  (I know all
about this, because our backup system was built with the 1024 block size
built in, it had to be rewritten for rh6.2)  take a look at your drives
with dumpe2fs.