Sid Boyce wrote:
There was a difference between versions of reiserfs which caused my scsi disks not to be compatible with mandrake. I had to backup the data and mkreiserfs on those disks before they would mount. The current version in 9.2 is 3.6.18, I don't know what version is in 8.2. You can also expect to see some strange messages and perhaps hangs with hotplug and a good /etc/modprobe.conf was difficult until I installed the new modutils. It may have been a problem in 9.0, but I was able to codge it together by loading modules manually. Any reason you couldn't go to at least and preferably 9.1 on another disk, where you could copy across some of the critical files in /etc,/home and anything else needed, that would be a much easier way to go to 2.6. Regards Sid.
The version in 8.2 is 3.6.4 which is spose to be ok to use. Must be if the SuSe kernel (2.6.8) works ok I guess.Actually I never tried the vanilla 2.6.8, but since 2.6.7 and 2.6.9 didn't work I didn't bother. Yes I have installed the new modules-init package. I really just stripped the kernel right back to the bare minimum to make sure it would at least mount the fs, which SuSE's one did. Now I'll try adding back the stuff I needed. I did find some info on running 2.4 alongside 2.6, so I'll work through this. I was just that not being able to mount the fs was a major and prevented any progress. If reiserfs 3.6.18 is backward compatible with 3.6.4 then I may upgrade (after the backup). As for why. I hadn't built the kernel in a while and I wanted to try out the new features. Its a laptop so I'm stuck with this drive, but b4 I go any further I will be copying the directories you mention across to the server :-) Thanks for the advise Regards Jeff