From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 12:31:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from one.net-noise.com (ansible.nwark.net [208.136.254.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E5E37B71D for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 12:31:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jshenry@net-noise.com) Received: from guinevere (guinevere.net-noise.com [192.168.1.14]) by one.net-noise.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA20185 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:31:13 -0500 Message-ID: <012a01bffe4a$a634dae0$0e01a8c0@guinevere> From: "J. Seth Henry" To: Subject: ext2 support? Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:31:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0127_01BFFE20.BC0D2590" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0127_01BFFE20.BC0D2590 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am interested in converting my Linux file server over to FreeBSD 4. = The primary motivation is stability, particularly Samba. I have been = experiencing kernel panics under load when I write to Samba shares. = Reads are not affected, and FTP/NFS traffic doesn't seem to bother it = either. Unfortunately, Samba is a critical function of this machine, and = this instability is quite irritating. Unfortunately, all of the volumes are mounted as ext2. Is there a way to = get BSD to read/write ext2 volumes? I eventually plan to migrate over to = a native file system, especially once I recreate the RAID, but I would = like to simply mount my existing single volumes rather than go through = the mess of a tape backup. Thanks, Seth Henry jshenry@net-noise.com ------=_NextPart_000_0127_01BFFE20.BC0D2590 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I am interested in converting my Linux = file server=20 over to FreeBSD 4. The primary motivation is stability, particularly = Samba. I=20 have been experiencing kernel panics under load when I write to Samba = shares.=20 Reads are not affected, and FTP/NFS traffic doesn't seem to bother it = either.=20 Unfortunately, Samba is a critical function of this machine, and this=20 instability is quite irritating.

Unfortunately, all of the volumes are = mounted as=20 ext2. Is there a way to get BSD to read/write ext2 volumes? I eventually = plan to=20 migrate over to a native file system, especially once I recreate = the RAID,=20 but I would like to simply mount my existing single volumes rather = than go=20 through the mess of a tape backup.

Thanks,

Seth Henry

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