On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:08:55 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett(a)shentel.net> wrote:
On Tuesday 21 August 2018 08:21:12 Nick Koretsky
wrote:
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?!!
+100
Now the question of the day is how the hell do we fix it?
If you need a shared partition between wheezy and stretch create it in
wheezy.