Jan Stary schreef op zo 30-12-2012 om 15:36 [+0100]: > > > > > > When moving these files over via nfs the problem doesn't occur and > > > > > > the > > > > > > files are saved correctly on my ffs partition. > > > > > > > > > > That (or scp) is how I always copied files > > > > > from one FS/OS/arch to a completely different FS/OS/arch. > > > > > > > > > And my point isn't the migration of my data. There is a work-around so I > > > > already fixed that. > > > > > > That's not a workaround. You cannot take a disk holding > > > a certain filesystem from a certain OS on a certain architecture, > > > put it into a different machine of a different architecture, > > > running a different OS, mount it as a different filesystem, > > > and just expect it to work. Going through a defined protocol > > > such as NFS of SCP is the normal way. > > > > > This should not be an issue (this is also my response to Rogier). Ext3 > > is nothing more than ext2 with extra journaling features enabled, > > So in particular, the ext3 inode structure > is precisely the ext2 inode structure?
Yes [1] > > > If a filesystem isn't a "defined protocol" then it shouldn't be offered > > as a mountable filesystem. > > Nobody is offering ext3 as a mountable filesystem on OpenBSD. > And that's why I'm mounting it as an ext2 filesystem and not as a journaled ext3. So until you can point me to some (backwards-)incompatible differences between the two filesystems I'm convinced that there shouldn't be a problem and I want to find out what causes this anomaly. [1] http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html Q: What is ext3? Q: How do I convert my ext2 partition to ext3? (was: How do I use ext3?)
