Thus spake Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > LINT says:
> > >#
> > ># 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
> >
> This message has been in LINT since the dawn of time and is extremely
> mystifying. "Be a bit careful" .. meaning what ? You either mount it or
> don't mount it, use it or don't use it. What exactly are you supposed to
> be careful of :) Saying "Boo!".
FreeBSD support for ext2fs is a specific instance of the more
general problem that features that very few people care about tend
not to get maintained. FreeBSD already has a filesystem that is
more complete and faster than ext2fs,[1] so the only people using
both UFS and ext2fs are also running Linux. If you mount an
ext2fs filesystem r/w, consider yourself a beta tester.
[1] The designers of ext2 basically took FFS and removed the parts
they didn't care for or were hard to implement.
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