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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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