Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:22:32 -0800 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time) Message-ID: <87skcoo007.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> In-Reply-To: <20091108104837.GA64633@ei.bzerk.org> (Ruben de Groot's message of "Sun\, 8 Nov 2009 11\:48\:37 %2B0100") References: <ac3d41850911071334l4fc5adf1h979c2478f7143a35@mail.gmail.com> <20091107223558.GB61756@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20091107230703.GA94028@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <87639lpmj6.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> <20091108104837.GA64633@ei.bzerk.org>
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Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> writes: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 10:18:21PM -0800, Carl Johnson typed: >> Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> writes: >> >> > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> >> > [snip] >> >> >> >> Not so sure I did anything for your most important question - if ext2 s ext3 >> >> is a problem, but I hope the rest is helpful. >> >> >> > >> > No, it's not a problem Jerry. ext3 is basically ext2 + journal, so you >> > can mount it at as ext2 from within FreeBSD (or Linux). >> > >> > The journal sorts itself out when you boot Linux and it mounts the >> > filesystem as ext3. >> >> I haven't been able to mount some ext3 filesystems. When I >> experimented, it appears that most new ext3 filesystems default to 256 >> byte inodes. When I created a filesystem with 128 byte inodes then >> FreeBSD could mount it just fine. I didn't try ext2, but I think the >> inode is independent of ext2 or ext3. This is for FreeBSD >> 7.1-RELEASE, so maybe things have changed for 7.2 or 8.0. > > This has been patched: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/124621 Thanks for the information, but I notice that it was put into stable *very* recently, so I hope it gets into 8.0-RELEASE. I wasn't too worried about it since the workaround was obvious once I identified the problem. I actually prefer to use Reiserfs, but it appears that nobody is working on rw access for it. Like the original poster, I am a Debian user who is experimenting with it, but from VirtualBox for now. I will probably try setting up dual boot when 8.0 comes out. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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