From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 20:13:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E19F37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:13:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.reppep.com (www.reppep.com [66.92.104.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA73A43E42 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:13:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pepper@reppep.com) Received: from [66.92.104.201] (g4.reppep.com [66.92.104.201]) by www.reppep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F313AC7C; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:13:31 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: pepper@mail.reppep.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20021121035034.GA2591@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <20021119100625.GC679@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021121035034.GA2591@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:12:12 -0500 To: David Schultz From: Chris Pepper Subject: Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:50 PM -0800 2002/11/20, David Schultz wrote: >Thus spake Chris Pepper : >> To use ext2fs, you can either add >> >the option EXT2FS to your kernel config to compile it statically >> >into your kernel, or you can load the ext2fs module dynamically, >> >even into GENERIC. To do the latter, the module must exist; >> >it will be created if you make the kernel with -DWANT_EXT2FS_MODULE. >> >It is also installed by sysinstall, IIRC. >> >> David, >> >> I know they're distinct, but it's silly for a discussion of >> Linux applications to ignore the possibility of those apps residing >> on a Linux filesystem. I couldn't find ext2fs documented anywhere, >> which is the first issue. The second is adding a link & comment to >> the LABI chapter. > >Hmm...I think you're right. I don't see any documentation for the >option. I would just as soon hook the module up to the default >build like all the other modules, but maybe the license is an issue. I think it's off by default for stability, but would like to submit a patch to the LABI Handbook chapter linking to a discussion of the FS module. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found a URL that describes it. LINT says: ># ># 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 Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: Rockefeller University: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message