Hi, > > - As a full-time GNU/Linux user, I keep most of my data stored on an > > external disk using an ext3 file system. Given these file systems are > > open source altogether, I wonder why OpenSolaris can't mount any of > > these drives "out of the box", simply while having it plugged in > > (Disclaimer: the last time I tried this was in late 2008, not sure > > how lates releases do here). This would be helpful. :) > > This one is VERY true. I personally think it's a shame that so few > filesystems can be mounted natively by any solaris flavour. > I keep a laptop with Ubuntu just for this wonderful connection thing. > Plugin whatever FS and it's not only been reckognized, but you can > actualy work with it! Read/write is no problem. >
So, who from you is participating on ext3 project? :-) There is ext2fs driver at least. With bugs, of course. But fully opensource osol project. The actual participants have limited time. And you do not need to be "source coder", even documentation, testing, preparing e.g. PSARC case materials are important for that project. The other, very good project can be to look at Solaris VFS and do cleanup there and expose VFS to some user space API (or to continue in FUSE project at least). Best regards, Milan
