From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 9:17:19 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 09:17:16 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B79337B400 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:17:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.147]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id MAA25105; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:17:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id MAA25386; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:17:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:17:14 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: sg Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem about mount ext2fs in freebsd 3.2 In-Reply-To: <001d01c064e8$870f6fe0$640170ca@nx.cninfo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lacking a better answer, /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT does say: # Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of Linux fame. Be a bit # careful with this - the ext2fs code has a tendency to lag behind # changes and not be exercised very much, so mounting read/write could # be dangerous (and even mounting read only could result in panics.) # options EXT2FS So unfortunately that does not solve your problem. It looks like a known issue. Can anybody provide a reference or information on why mounting ext2fs on FreeBSD is so unstable? Seems like it would get used enough to at least not cause panics. That seems like a pretty serious issue. Tim On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, sg wrote: > Hi all, > I add option "ext2fs" to my kernel config file, compile and install ok > when I mount my linux partition by use: > #mount -t ext2fs /dev/da0s3 /mnt > it prompt no error message,but when I execute command: ls /mnt > the system is rebooted. > > Thanks very much. > > Best wishes! > > sun gang. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message