[NTLUG:Discuss] here is the description of the SCO IP license

[MadHat]

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 17:46, fredjame wrote:
> Thank you for that comment.  Has anyone actually confirmed that?  And 
> also, there is still the hardware compatibility issue - Linux has never 
> been famous for supporting the newest hardware right away, so I have to 
> assume a pre 2.4 kernel is going to have some issues with a newer machine.
> 

Check 'man tune2fs' for converting back to ext2, but yes you can mount a
ext3fs as ext2 as long as it was flushed to disk and shut down
properly..

> Lance Simmons wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:20:20PM -0500, fredjame wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Now that we are all 2.4+ and using ext3, what is the best way to back
> >>up to pre 2.4 and ext2?  
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >IIRC, ext3 is merely ext2 plus a journal file, so there shouldn't be any
> >problem moving back to a pre-2.4 kernel -- except that you'd lose
> >journalling.  If you unmount an ext3 filesystem, I think you should be
> >able to immediately remount it as ext2.
> >
> >  
> >
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