Re: mounting ext3 partitions?

[Han <han@mijncomputer.nl>]

Andreas Schuldei (andreas@schuldei.org) wrote:
> * Han (han@mijncomputer.nl) [020315 23:14]:
> > Andreas Schuldei (andreas@schuldei.org) wrote:
> > > I would like to mount my Linux-ext3 partition under openbsd. It is
> > > possible to mount ext3 as ext2 under linux but I had no luck
> > > trying that under openbsd.
> > 
> > Works fine here.
> 
> No special options, just plain mount?

Yes. ext3 is simply ext2 with a journalfile. So you can mount that. But
since linux is not the only one who is writing to the disk I don't think
it is very usefull to use the journal anyway. Depends if a new log is
started after every mount.

I once had my OpenBSD box crash hard, I started ogle with no dvd in the
drive, while an ext2 partition was mounted and the things you will see
when fsck-ing the partition won't make you happy.

I still wonder why the linux-people do not try to get support for ffs
and softupdates. I mean journaling is fine but developping on six
different variations at the same time while there is also softupdates
seems a bit weird.



Cya, Han.