Hi Nigel, +1
Having ext3 (and XFS) support would ease migration of Linux boxes to OpenSolaris. At least in our environment (XFS). -J On Dec 10, 2007 6:52 PM, Nigel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 > > I would have liked to have seen more discussion on the benefits > to OpenSolaris by supporting ext2/3. > > Certainly it is a very interesting academic exercise to > support this file system, and I am sure much will be learned > by all who participate in this project > from the creation of the necessary source code. > > But ext2 is basically obsolete. > I think Red Hat Linux switched to ext3 back in 2002/3. > So I think ext2 will only be used by a very small minority. > > And even if we get to a stage of ext3 support there is still > the issue that Cyril pointed to, that LVM is now used by > default by many Linux distributions. > > And the Linux people are working on ext4... > > The OpenSolaris ext3 project will need to provide very high > quality code and must be rigorously tested to > avoid any nasty data corruption issues. > (I assume we are talking about full read/write here.) > > So there is a lot of work to be done before we have > anything that is really useful in today's world. > > Even then, Milan Jurik warns that: > > Sharing home directories between two OSes can be dangerous, because some > > applications can be surprised that their configs are for other versions > > of them. > > Do people see this ext2/3 as helping interoperability? > But then this is only an issue if you want to share data between > partitions on the same PC, when dual-booting Linux & Solaris. > Do many people really want/need to do this? > > Surely most people will have separate PC's for Linux and > Solaris and share data with something like NFS across the network. > > Is it the idea that the ext2/3 filesystem will be a viable > alternative to UFS (or ZFS) when installing/booting OpenSolaris? > > Has anyone yet ascertained if there is any documentation for ext3 ? > > Hopefully the project page will link to the documentation for ext2. > > Will the GNU e2fsprogs need some patching to run on OpenSolaris? > Are the underlying API's different on Solaris to Linux? > > Regards > Nigel Smith > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss > _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
