[WBEL-users] Screwed by a CentOS4 install test

John Morris jmorris at beau.org
Tue Apr 18 17:11:47 CDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 14:36, John Morris wrote:

> In the end you might be chasing the wrong culprit.  There were
> persistent reports that test releases of FC5 was borking older ext3
> filesystems, even ones not explicitly being requested to be mounted, by
> flipping on new filesystem features that are not backwards compatible.
> 
> Have been meaning to try a controlled experiment to find out if it a) it
> is true and b) if it persisted into the final FC5 release.

Replying to myself... found time to run a controlled experiment.  FC5 is
safe, it won't harm a WBEL3/RHEL3 install even if you have FC5 mount it
while running anaconda.  So that rules that out.

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