FC3 symlink issues

Ron Yorston rmy at tigress.co.uk
Fri Jul 22 08:50:16 UTC 2005


"K. Richard Pixley" <rich at noir.com> wrote:
>I'm having some problems moving a file system back and forth between an 
>FC3 box and some linux-2.4 based systems, (one rh9, one embedded).

snip detailed description of problem...

>
>Can anyone explain to me what's going on here?  Or better, how to create 
>a file system on FC3 that can be read and used on a linux-2.4 box?

I have a dim recollection of compatibility problems with ext2 filesystems
and "fast symlinks".  Here's something that Google turned up:

   http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2004-01/0752.html

Don't know what to do about it, though.

Ron




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