Re: [trinity-users] stretch problems

On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:55:28 +0200 "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office(a)klepp.biz> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 21. August 2018 schrieb Nick Koretsky: > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:20:43 +0200 > > > > "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office(a)klepp.biz> wrote: > > > > Its tears so far Nik. There are so many differences just > > > > in the ext4's used that one of them should be renamed, > > > > they will NOT cross mount, ext4 disk to ext4 mount. > > > > > > Hi Gene! > > > > > > When you cannot mount the ext4 partions from one another, > > > then there is something very wrong. ext4 can be mounted as > > > ext2 and that should alway work - at least, if the drives > > > and filesystems are ok. > > > > No, you are wrong. There were options added to ext4 which > > made it incompatible with older kernels. And a few years ago > > they made this options default. Debian wheezy kernel (3.2) > > would not mount ext4 created in debian stretch. > > Hi! > > Now that's a gotcha I did not know. How did it come that this > was thought of beeing a good idea? > > Nik Yep. Exactly my thought when i spent 3-hours with a server refusing to boot after migration to a new hdd (i used a stretch flash to copy). Who the fuck toughs it was a good idea?!! Why not call it ext5 or ext4a or whatever?!!