Hi Folks,
As I had mentioned before, a new SVR4 package is now available that
provides the following features:
* Utility to dump detailed partition table info on x86 platforms
(prtpart).
* Ability to read-only mount EXT2FS and NTFS partitions (both*
primary and extended*).
* The utilities from e2fsprogs <http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/>
compiled for OpenSolaris.
* Some of the utilities from ntfsprogs <http://www.linux-ntfs.org/>
compiled for OpenSolaris.
Download it from http://www.belenix.org <http://www.belenix.org/>
The read-only mount capability is an enhancement of the initial NTFS
mount <http://mount-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>
work done by Martin Rosenau.
Essentially the approach is to run an instrumented userland NFS server that
reads raw blocks from a device and interprets them as per the filesystem
format.
The NTFS support was already present in Martin's work and I modified it to
also suport Ext2FS using libext2fs from e2fsprogs. In addition I have done a
bunch of enhancements to integrate better with the OpenSolaris way of doing
things. So for eg. you can use "mount -F ext2fs ..." instead of having
to run a
custom binary.
