From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 15: 9:15 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 6DB4537B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:09:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-232-220-15.client.attbi.com [12.232.220.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5E443E8A for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gALN9Cm9006736; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:09:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gALN9C04006735; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:09:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:09:12 -0800 From: David Schultz To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild? Message-ID: <20021121230912.GE6062@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021119100625.GC679@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021121035034.GA2591@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021121072556.GB1590@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021121072556.GB1590@raggedclown.net> 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 Thus spake Cliff Sarginson : > > 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 > > > 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!". FreeBSD support for ext2fs is a specific instance of the more general problem that features that very few people care about tend not to get maintained. FreeBSD already has a filesystem that is more complete and faster than ext2fs,[1] so the only people using both UFS and ext2fs are also running Linux. If you mount an ext2fs filesystem r/w, consider yourself a beta tester. [1] The designers of ext2 basically took FFS and removed the parts they didn't care for or were hard to implement. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message