Am Dienstag, 21. August 2018 schrieb Nick Koretsky:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:20:43 +0200
> "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...> 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




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