Ocfs2 users - May 2009 - OCFS2 1.4/1.2 compatibility

Hello,

 I am using the Debian Lenny ocfs2-tools package (dpkg reports a 1.4.1-1
version for it) with the kernel package
linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64 from Debian Etch because of
kernel/hardware compatibility issues.

 Since I notice from dmesg the following:

OCFS2 DLM 1.3.3
OCFS2 DLMFS 1.3.3

 I'm writing to ask you: am I going to find any problems while using a
more recent version of ocfs2-tools to create and manage the filesystem?


Best regards

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 06:08:18PM +0200, Marco wrote:
>  I am using the Debian Lenny ocfs2-tools package (dpkg reports a 1.4.1-1
> version for it) with the kernel package
> linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64 from Debian Etch because of
> kernel/hardware compatibility issues.
> 
>  Since I notice from dmesg the following:
> 
> OCFS2 DLM 1.3.3
> OCFS2 DLMFS 1.3.3
> 
>  I'm writing to ask you: am I going to find any problems while using a
> more recent version of ocfs2-tools to create and manage the filesystem?
	ocfs2-tools should always work with your kernel.  While
mkfs.ocfs2 would need --fs-feature-level=max-compat, your kernel is new
enough to support all the default features of mkfs.ocfs2 1.4.1.

Joel

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