[RC1] ext2fs broken?

[Steve Kargl]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:32:21AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes:
> 
> > While it may be nice to transparently use ext2fs file systems,
> > you are aware of the comment in /sys/conf/NOTES?
> 
> ext2fs used to work quite well on FreeBSD, it's only quite growse
> recently, in 5.2.

Then, you've been lucky.  FreeBSD has never guaranteed the
ability to write to an ext2fs.

> 
> FreeBSD 5.2 ext2fs currently only works if you do read-only mounts and
> umount before shutting down.
> 

This statement basically reflects the comment in NOTES.

-- 
Steve