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 -- SteveReceived on Sun Dec 14 2003 - 08:29:27 UTC
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