Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 11:55:45 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU (Mark O'Lear) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, ctjones@kodak.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mount Linux Partitions??? Message-ID: <199609041655.LAA00112@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <322DB02D.4EAD@Colorado.EDU> from "Mark O'Lear" at Sep 4, 96 10:37:01 am
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> > Actually the ext2fs code in the 2.2 SNAPs seems more stable than in > Linux. We had a drive in a Linux box go bad (yep you guessed it, > a brand new 1.2G WD - I guess I didn't "overlay" it in time) and > no Linux box here would read it without panicing (completely > unusable). I made a new 2.2-960501-SNAP kernel with ext2fs and > it read the drive just fine (although with a few hard errors) - > no panics, core dumps, etc. > One minor warning (I am the one who ported the EXT2FS code from Godmar Back's work on Lites), is that I still don't think that the problem with sync at reboot has been fixed on our implementation. It isn't fatal as much as it is annoying. I certainly do plan on fixing it before release. John
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