george293
November 3rd, 2008, 05:48 AM
Hi, Installing a fresh 8.10 results in inode size of 256 bytes. Once installed, the value cannot be changed.
An inode size of 256 breaks just about every windows package wanting to access ext3 filesystems and, while not breaking it, makes it practically impossible to use ext3 partition back-up sofware running on Windows.
However, upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 leaves the inode size as 128 avoiding all the above problems and more.
My questions are: why change the inode size in the first place, since only new Ubuntu users can take advantage of it (whatever that advantage is!) and why not make the inode size configurable as 128 or 256 when the partitions are formatted so that users depending on Windows s/w can continue using it?
Many thanks
An inode size of 256 breaks just about every windows package wanting to access ext3 filesystems and, while not breaking it, makes it practically impossible to use ext3 partition back-up sofware running on Windows.
However, upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 leaves the inode size as 128 avoiding all the above problems and more.
My questions are: why change the inode size in the first place, since only new Ubuntu users can take advantage of it (whatever that advantage is!) and why not make the inode size configurable as 128 or 256 when the partitions are formatted so that users depending on Windows s/w can continue using it?
Many thanks