Le 17/06/12 16:36, Greg Troxel a écrit :
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.
This works, I even made it so in pre-official EC2 era. However I would discourage this for two reasons:
- POLA principle: using Linux tools to format such a partition would make it unusable under NetBSD, as all distros default to ext3 now (and even ext4). Many cloud providers provide these tools to bootstrap systems.
- mounting it on a Linux system (although unlikely to happen for cloud-based VMs) will make it non functional; best example being a mount of a NetBSD ext2 fs as ext3.
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