On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Johan Hartzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Krenz von Leiberman > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Is it possible to read an external hard drive with an ext3 filesystem > from > >>> a redhat branded zone? > >>> Thanks in advance. > >> > >> No. > >> > >> Branded zones run Solaris, but with Linux-lookalike APIs. > >> > >> Therefore, no Linux kernel, and subsequently no Linux (device) drivers > are > >> present. > > > > But with FUSE, it seems as though the ext3 file system could be > > mounted from the Solaris global zone and at least lofs mounted into > > the Linux branded zone. > > > > http://blogs.sun.com/pradhap/entry/mount_ntfs_ext2_ext3_in > > > > Google "solaris fuse ext3" for some other possibly useful pages. I > > haven't tried tried this myself... > > I hit send too early... > > There is also this project that seems to have made some headway: > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ext3/ > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ext3/Documentation/quick_start/ > That is good news! I dismissed pradhap's effort because it seems to be abandoned, a single person's work, old, and read-only. I would not want to trust my data on something I can not support. For me the work-around has been: Get Linux running in a VM solution (eg Virtualbox), get it to mount the ext2 / ext3 file system and share it out via NFS. Then mount that in the host OS and if needed loop-back mount it to the zones, etc. Like I said, it is a work-around.
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