Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 17:00:32 +0200 From: "Leonard den Ottolander" <leonardjo@hetnet.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ext2 and FreeBSD Message-ID: <079241002151860NET015S@hetnet.nl> In-Reply-To: <200006221958.PAA04279@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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Hello all,
"Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> wrote:
> I saw the question on using FreeBSD on an ext2 file system, but I've
> lost it.
>
> Be *very* careful doing this. This is a bit stale, but I haven't seen
> anything since then about the topic, so . . .
Yeah, that seems to be my problem as well. There's not a lot to find about
FreeBSD and the ext2fs on the net.
> With 3.2, I used an ext2 partition for home, as I was sharing it with
> linux. I couldn't find a couple of the apps I needed, iirc, and didn't
> want to duplicate home. There were occasional random writes to the
> drive--it would be writing, and it dumped garbage in the middle of the
> file. I saw this in individual files in /home, and in /var/spool/mail
> (which was linked to the ext2 system). It may be that this is fixed by
> now; I never got any response to my reports of the problem or later
> questions asking if it was fixed.
Although this does not answer the question how to use the new "sparse
superblock" ext2fs in rw mode, I will heed the warning. As long as I don't
solve this one I am in no danger though, since I can only mount my linux
partitions read only.
I was wondering, are there people that could verify the (in)stability of
using ext2 under FreeBSD? Were/are these problems caused by the ext2fs code or
are they related to the VFS? Pointers to answers to those kind of questions
are welcomed. Thanks in advance,
Bye,
Leonard.
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