From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 09:56:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA20750 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 09:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA20744 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 09:56:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA00112; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 11:55:45 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199609041655.LAA00112@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Mount Linux Partitions??? To: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU (Mark O'Lear) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 11:55:45 -0500 (EST) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, ctjones@kodak.com, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <322DB02D.4EAD@Colorado.EDU> from "Mark O'Lear" at Sep 4, 96 10:37:01 am Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Actually the ext2fs code in the 2.2 SNAPs seems more stable than in > Linux. We had a drive in a Linux box go bad (yep you guessed it, > a brand new 1.2G WD - I guess I didn't "overlay" it in time) and > no Linux box here would read it without panicing (completely > unusable). I made a new 2.2-960501-SNAP kernel with ext2fs and > it read the drive just fine (although with a few hard errors) - > no panics, core dumps, etc. > One minor warning (I am the one who ported the EXT2FS code from Godmar Back's work on Lites), is that I still don't think that the problem with sync at reboot has been fixed on our implementation. It isn't fatal as much as it is annoying. I certainly do plan on fixing it before release. John