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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: "Klaus-J. Wolf" <yanestra@web.de>
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Subject: Re: [RC1] ext2fs broken?
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:05:14PM +0100, Klaus-J. Wolf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have observed some strange behaviour of mounted ext2fs (*ick*) 
> filesystems. The strange behaviour ranges from when unpacking a tar in a 
> mounted ext2fs filesystem getting "cannot open: Operation not permitted" 
> or "...File exists" and ls(1) saying the whole device its empty. 
> Sometimes directories disappear, the block count is massively different 
> from what Linux says about it.
> 

While it may be nice to transparently use ext2fs file systems,
you are aware of the comment in /sys/conf/NOTES?

# 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
 
-- 
Steve