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Date:      Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:24:28 -0800
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc:        "Klaus-J. Wolf" <yanestra@web.de>
Subject:   Re: [RC1] ext2fs broken?
Message-ID:  <20031215022428.GA14011@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m3iskjkmbe.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
References:  <3FDC984A.70805@web.de> <20031214172926.GA10645@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <m3iskjkmbe.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:32:21AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes:
> 
> > While it may be nice to transparently use ext2fs file systems,
> > you are aware of the comment in /sys/conf/NOTES?
> 
> ext2fs used to work quite well on FreeBSD, it's only quite growse
> recently, in 5.2.

Then, you've been lucky.  FreeBSD has never guaranteed the
ability to write to an ext2fs.

> 
> FreeBSD 5.2 ext2fs currently only works if you do read-only mounts and
> umount before shutting down.
> 

This statement basically reflects the comment in NOTES.

-- 
Steve



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