I have a test machine for development of drivers for our card.
  It has Linux, NT and NetBSD on it.
  The Linux ext2fs partitions are mounted as /emul/linux.
  I've had a lot of problems with files being of weird types, both
with 1.3.2 and Havard's snapshot code. E.g:

ls -lta /emul/linux
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root    12288 Oct 28 20:42 lost+found
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root    root     1024 Feb  6  1996 proc
lr-x-wSr-T   1 daemon  42831     256 Dec 31  1969 etc -> 
lr-x-wSr-T   1 daemon  42831     256 Dec 31  1969 tmp -> 

  Yet, it most certainly has an /etc directory!
  Something isn't quite right with the ext2fs. I know I've run it on
machines at Sandelman for some time, but that wasn't with a 2.0.35 Linux
kernel that did the install. Maybe they fixed something, or changed some
state?
  Ideas?
  I have not set the EXT2FS_SYSTEM_FLAGS option. I will try that though.

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