Re: adding newfs_ext2fs and mount_ext2fs to ramdisk flist

Le 17/06/12 16:36, Greg Troxel a écrit :
> Did you consider just using ext2fs for the entire netbsd disk?  As a
> long-time BSD user, that feels odd, but I wonder if people have
> opinions/data on how well it works.  I've had the impression ext2fs had
> consistency issues with unclean shutdown, but also that those were fixed
> in Linux, and of course our code is different.

This works, I even made it so in pre-official EC2 era. However I would 
discourage this for two reasons:

- POLA principle: using Linux tools to format such a partition would 
make it unusable under NetBSD, as all distros default to ext3 now (and 
even ext4). Many cloud providers provide these tools to bootstrap systems.

- mounting it on a Linux system (although unlikely to happen for 
cloud-based VMs) will make it non functional; best example being a mount 
of a NetBSD ext2 fs as ext3.

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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