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Re: adding newfs_ext2fs and mount_ext2fs to ramdisk flist



On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:36:17AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> [...]
> Did you consider just using ext2fs for the entire netbsd disk?  As a
> long-time BSD user, that feels odd, but I wonder if people have
> opinions/data on how well it works.  I've had the impression ext2fs had
> consistency issues with unclean shutdown, but also that those were fixed
> in Linux, and of course our code is different.

There is also speed issues, ext2fs is much slower. Maybe FreeBSD or OpenBSD
did some improvements in this area, this should be checked.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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