AW: Re: ext3 Filessyten in FC5-Test incompatible with other FC or RHEL versions

[Arjan van de Ven]

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?

> I have read already bug #174618, but they assume a kernel patch for
> FC4. But as I want to use Centos4 and don't believe RedHat will corporate
> such a patch into their Kernels.

well if you use CentOS4 the question is "will CentOS put it into their
kernel" not "will Red Hat"....