Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:31:53 -0500 From: "J. Seth Henry" <jshenry@net-noise.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: ext2 support? Message-ID: <012a01bffe4a$a634dae0$0e01a8c0@guinevere>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0127_01BFFE20.BC0D2590 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am interested in converting my Linux file server over to FreeBSD 4. = The primary motivation is stability, particularly Samba. I have been = experiencing kernel panics under load when I write to Samba shares. = Reads are not affected, and FTP/NFS traffic doesn't seem to bother it = either. Unfortunately, Samba is a critical function of this machine, and = this instability is quite irritating. Unfortunately, all of the volumes are mounted as ext2. Is there a way to = get BSD to read/write ext2 volumes? I eventually plan to migrate over to = a native file system, especially once I recreate the RAID, but I would = like to simply mount my existing single volumes rather than go through = the mess of a tape backup. Thanks, Seth Henry jshenry@net-noise.com ------=_NextPart_000_0127_01BFFE20.BC0D2590 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I am interested in converting my Linux = file server=20 over to FreeBSD 4. The primary motivation is stability, particularly = Samba. I=20 have been experiencing kernel panics under load when I write to Samba = shares.=20 Reads are not affected, and FTP/NFS traffic doesn't seem to bother it = either.=20 Unfortunately, Samba is a critical function of this machine, and this=20 instability is quite irritating.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Unfortunately, all of the volumes are = mounted as=20 ext2. Is there a way to get BSD to read/write ext2 volumes? I eventually = plan to=20 migrate over to a native file system, especially once I recreate = the RAID,=20 but I would like to simply mount my existing single volumes rather = than go=20 through the mess of a tape backup.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Seth Henry</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A=20 href=3D"mailto:jshenry@net-noise.com">jshenry@net-noise.com</A></FONT></D= IV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0127_01BFFE20.BC0D2590-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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