mkfs under different kernels

Christopher Chan
Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:25:31 -0000

Christopher Chan wrote:
> Is there any difference between running mkfs.ext3 under a 2.4 kernel and
> running that under a 2.6 kernel?
>
> Any benefits gained from doing it under 2.6?

Let me add some context. I am going to conduct some benchmarks between
xfs and ext3 under different configurations and I wondered if running
mkfs under different kernels would affect the results.