From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 5 0: 0:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 462FB37B503 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 00:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 87560 invoked by uid 100); 5 Oct 2000 07:00:24 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14812.9992.117646.55129@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 02:00:24 -0500 (CDT) To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ext2fs support for writing - what's the verdict? In-Reply-To: <96512.970728701@winston.osd.bsdi.com> References: <96512.970728701@winston.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan Hubbard writes: > That's a nice idea and may work in my particular case, but this is > also the out-of-box configuration for Red Hat and most > Linux-to-FreeBSD users wouldn't know a tune2fs if it snuck up and bit > them on the ass in broad daylight. How hard would it be to support > sparse superblocks? Just FYI, Mandrake 7.1 does the same thing out of the box.