> Hi, I'm running SXCE build 111 and was wondering how > to get ext2/3 support for it? > > I discovered these pages: > > http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/9.html#s9.24 > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ext3/ > > which leads me to believe that experimental support > ie, an alpha package called ext2fs has been ported to > Open Solaris and SXCE???
No, not ported. The Linux ext2/3 source is GPL, so this has to be a new project from scratch. > However when I tried to mount my external USB drive > using vfstab with the line: > > /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0 - /mnt/usb0 ext2fs - - ro,soft > > it doesn't seem to like the ext2fs option for file > system. It seems that support either hasn't been > added or hasn't been turned on. > > What can I use to get ext2/3 support?? > > I have tried downloading the Belenix file: > http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/FSWpart.tar.gz > > but couldn't see any packages to pkgadd? I have an > empty install dir with copyright info in there and a > /reloc dir which contains binaries for /usr but how > do I install if this is the correct method to use for > ext(n) support???? I use these packages to access ext2/3. You need to install 2 packages: FSWpart and FSWfsmisc. These are not filesystem drivers in the conventional sense, they loopback mount an entire partition which userland apps can then access and manipulate. It's not very fast, but it works alright. > I will be triple booting with FreeBSD 7.2 and > probably Linux as well so ext2/3 is a good option for > me to have so I can use the same user space! I know > ZFS is compatible with BSD but my machine only has I use FreeBSD 7.2 as well. If you want to go down that path then beware that the FreeBSD version of zfs is many versions behind that of OpenSolaris. So If you create a ZFS partition with BSD, OpenSolaris should be able to access it, but not the other way round. A+ Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
