Oct 3, 2026, 03:15 by [email protected]:
> > > El 3/10/26 a las 4:42, Jeff escribió: > >> >> Based on advice I got elsewhere, I would like to put an ext2 filesystem on >> an existing partition that I can share between NetBSD and Gentoo on a dual >> boot system. The advice was to create the filesystem from in NetBSD. >> > > > Well, I did the opposite (probably wrong): I formatted the ext2 filesystem > under Linux, and I’ve had some trouble with it in NetBSD, as you may have > read here. > > Also RVP pointed problems when parallel copying files: > > "Well, I conclude that the NetBSD ext2fs implementation is just buggy. As a > test, > I created a DYNAMIC_REV FS using newfs_ext2fs(8), then did your parallel copy > test. Seemed to work fine. Unmounted and remounted; removed all the files; > repeated again. This time, the kernel paniced in the mkdir(2) syscall inside > ext2fs. > > If you want to keep making backups to ext2fs from NetBSD, I would avoid > any parallel operations." > > I honestly don’t know why, and I didn’t take any notes since then, so my > memory is a > bit fuzzy, I was overwhelmed by the complexity of the whole thing, but after > I ran the last looong fsck from NetBSD (using the e2fsprogs fsck, I think), > the problem hasn’t happened again. I’ve done about a dozen rsyncs since > then without any problems. But the question will always remain...I do not > know if fsck fixed the filesystem or the conditions that caused the problem > may simply not have occurred again. > > Regards. > Thanks for the information. I hope that you don't have any further issues with your drive! Jeff
