On Wed, 14 May 2008, Milan Cermak wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Milan Cermak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On the other hand, Linux understands OpenSolaris partition scheme and >>> ufs file system. It can also be made to understand zfs through fuse. >> >> Linux does not support UFS. >> >> Linux may have support for a modified UFS that is in use on *BSD since >> ~ 1994, but this is not complatible with the changes introduced in the main >> UFS line around 1988. > > As far as I know, Linux kernel has support for Solaris variant of UFS. > I've been using it on my notebook last year. > And yes, it's only partial support. Writing is experimental and > dangerous. I used just a read-only form.
"Normal" reading of a cleanly-unmounted filesystem will do fine. It's just the edges that will cause problems, things like: - do sparse files work correctly ? - do files that posix_fallocate(3C) was used on work correctly ? - does it deal with the Solaris Multi-TB UFS extension ? - does it deal with non-clean filesystems that use logging ? - can it handle filesystems that went through growfs(1M) ? - can Linux access e.g. a SVM metadevice with a UFS on it ? - can you access/honour UFS ACLs ? xattrs ? If all you want is a small filesystem to export a bit of data from Solaris to Linux, it's ok. But Linux UFS support (in all variants) was and is labeled "EXPERIMENTAL" for a reason. FrankH. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org