From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 13: 7:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D4E737BB52 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:07:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA00884; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:07:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:07:18 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "J. Seth Henry" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ext2 support? Message-ID: <20000804150718.A28639@dan.emsphone.com> References: <012a01bffe4a$a634dae0$0e01a8c0@guinevere> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.7i In-Reply-To: <012a01bffe4a$a634dae0$0e01a8c0@guinevere>; from "J. Seth Henry" on Fri Aug 4 14:31:53 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Aug 04), J. Seth Henry said: > 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. FreeBSD has support for ext2 filesystems; add "options EXT2FS" to your kernel config. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message