On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Bill Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ted, > > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 13:01 -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Bill Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I posted a message earlier about a kernel panic occurring when I > > > accessed a file on some of my ext3 fses. I've also been having trouble > > > with r/w extfs entries in fstab. At boot time I'm dropped to a shell > > > because fsck thinks the fs is unclean, even when "the other side" says > > > it's clean. > > > > ext3 is marked dirty because the journal hasn't been played back. You > > have to convert it to ext2 in linux before mounting in openbsd. > > > > That makes sense, I guess. And it does keep the unclean fs messages away > - not the bad ref count panic however. The docs could be a bit more > explicit about the lack of support for ext3 journaling.
I had nothing to do with writing the documentation and so have no ax to grind, but FAQ items 8.21 and 14.16 look pretty explicit to me. > > > And in reply to the various "why would you want to do that?"'s I > encountered while searching for the issue: very witty, but ext2 happens > to be a widely supported fs, which makes it a good candidate for shared > data on multiboot systems (FAT16/32? - can't be serious...!). Moreover, > so far OpenBSD has proven to have excellent support for ext2, apart from > that single issue. FFS support from Linux on the other hand, is C.R.A.P. Having decided to do a test migration to the BSD world from Linux, I tried FreeBSD (the BSD that gets the most publicity) first. I encountered a kernel-killing bug in their amd64 ext2 support (fixed in the latest release and I was given a patch right away, as it was a known bug), and their USB support is awful (re-written for the next big release), sometimes causing kernel freezes when using USB devices. This was a delightful combination for a guy who does his backups on ext2 filesystems on sata drives in USB shoeboxes. This issue caused me to look for an alternative to FreeBSD, and after learning more about OpenBSD and its philosophy, decided to try it. So far (a few weeks), my backups and just about everything else seem rock-solid. /Don Allen > > > Thanks, > > Bill
