Parted 'incompatible feature'

[Robert Locke]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 21:57, Robert wrote:
> Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, Robert <kerplop at sbcglobal.net> said:
> > 
> >>After consulting man tune2fs, I follow what you're doing above. I remain 
> >>mystified about the source of your information, though.
> > 
> > 
> > When I ran FC2 parted to resize a partition a week or two ago, it said
> > that the problem was the dir_index option, and I happened to still
> > remember it when I saw your email. :-)
> 
> Thanks again for remembering but I have yet the experience the "Thrill 
> of victory". I tried the sequence you spelled out without success and 
> decided it just might be the version of parted and/or tune2fs available 
> in FC1. For the record, that's parted 1.6.3-31 and tune2fs 1.34 
> (25-Jul-2003).  So, I got out my trusty FC2 rescue CD and booted this 
> machine from it. (Skipped network setup, skipped mounting / fs on 
> /mnt/sysimage.) This gives me tune2fs 1.35 (28 Feb 2004) and GNU parted 
> 1.6.9 to work with and I got the same results. First I tried tune2fs \ 
> -O ^dir_index /dev/hdb2 then tried the same command on the /boot part 
> (hdb1) too. Parted complained, either way, with the same msg as before.
> 
> I'm thinking that the tune2fs command isn't doing anything because when 
> I theoretically restored the dir_index for the two partitions, any delay 
> before the bash prompt returned was imperceptable.
> 
> Y'know, since removing the rescue CD and rebooting to FC1, I thought of 
> something else that's not exactly normal.  When I loaded FC2 onto that 
> drive, I unplugged the pri master drive to be damn certain that any 
> misunderstanding 'tween Anaconda and I would cost nothing but time. 
> Therefore GRUB was installed on the pri slave drive.
> I wonder if that's spoiling my party...  That's for tomorrow.

I do not know if this is related, but perhaps the following bugzilla
report applies:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90894

This has been continuing into RHEL3 and FC1 last I checked.  Not sure
about FC2, but some interesting comments that may apply...

--Rob