Re: (reiserfs) Re: New Linux 2.5 - 2.6 TODO (Alan Cox suggests delaying

[marco ghidinelli]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:06:59PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:50:02PM +0100, Alan Cox <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > Get your RedHat 6.2 and plug in a 2.0 kernel and then even winblows will seem
> > > stable in comparison!
> > 
> > It works and its reliable although you have to tweak a few tools to get the
> > 2.0 back compatibility in ps and friends quite right
> 
> You just might have to reformat all your ext2 partitions because the
> on-disk-format changed ;-> Same thing can happen with 2.4

in debian (potato) install you were asked if you like to maintanin 2.0 kernel
compatibility..

so you can use 2.0 or 2.2 as you like