From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 0:21:54 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 C4A3E37B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:21:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-146.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D25D43E3B for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:21:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0111066CFB; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:21:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4693D12A5; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:21:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:21:51 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild? Message-ID: <20021121082151.GB17172@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20021119100625.GC679@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021121035034.GA2591@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021121072556.GB1590@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021121072556.GB1590@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:56AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:12:12PM -0500, Chris Pepper wrote: > > At 7:50 PM -0800 2002/11/20, David Schultz wrote: > > >Thus spake Chris Pepper : > > > 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 > >=20 > This message has been in LINT since the dawn of time and is extremely > mystifying. "Be a bit careful" .. meaning what ? You either mount it or > don't mount it, use it or don't use it. What exactly are you supposed to > be careful of :) Saying "Boo!". Data corruption. Kris --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93JeeWry0BWjoQKURAgvhAJsGFve2n6SZ7Cnj9n4PJpaJt8Q4NACgk1/k +EA+QxihNRyRQNw0PN5shO8= =A8YK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message