Mat wrote: > I've been playing around with Linux quite a bit the past few years. I've been > using Gentoo for most of the time, then switched to Arch because there was > quite a bit less maintenance required but still offered the same amount of > flexibility. Then I switched to Kubuntu because I wanted very low maintenance > and very high ease of use. I'm not a fan of Ubuntu and I'm not sure what else > I can try in terms of linux distributions that will offer something new to me. > > So here I am. I found out about opensolaris about this time last year and > tried it in Virtualbox and was pleased. So I decided to install it in it's > own partition. The only problems I've run into so far are that my sound card > doesnt have drivers installed, my network cards dont have drivers installed > and need third party drivers, and I cant mount my ext3 drives. > > I have a working Windows install which I used to download the 3rd party > drivers for my network cards onto my data drive (EXT3). Now I know I could > put the files in a USB drive or cd and then copy them over but I want to be > able to use my Ext3 partitions in OpenSolaris. The reason I dont want to > change the filesystem is because I'll keep a copy of windows and maybe a > linux distribution and I want these files accessible from all OSes. > > What can I do? Is there a filesystem that is fully compatible with > OpenSolaris that I can also use in Linux and Windows? > You can install zfs-fuse file system on ubuntu Linux (there are packages provided) and use it ti acces data on ZFS partition. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS
But I am personally very much shocked that opensolaris can not read ext2/ext3 partitions.. I even used ,for a long time, many read-only and read-write ext3 solutions on MS Windows and I thing that not supporting ext3 under opensolaris is very unpleasant drawback for new Opensolaris adopters that want to keep their Linux data and usage. I am preparing myself to put ZFS installation of Opensolaris on Ubuntu-only machine myself and this issue (and unbelievable FAT-like responses from posters) made me think again.
