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can solaris 10 mount ext2 or ext3 partitions?

807559Feb 1 2005 — edited May 1 2005
Hi, I'm looking at setting up multiple machines connected to a san, a mixture of solaris and linux servers. I'd like to have a filesystem that both can read, to mount the san disks on the linux servers if the need arises. I'd like to use a journaling file system, like ext3 or reiserfs...

Is this possible? I'm having difficulty installing onto a suitable pc in the office to test, otherwise i'd just pull up the man for mount.

Thanks!

-Mojo

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807559
I've come across LXRUN, but as far as I can tell it's read only for mounted ext2 filesystems, and I definitely need write capability. Anyone with any ideas?
807559
what about vfat ?? newbie to solaris ... sorry
807559
I've seen nfs mounts on both linux,sun,etc but I'm not sure about ext3/2
807559
I've read that e2fsprogs can compile on solaris, i'm not sure if that includes a module for ext2/3 support though. I'm still searching though.

Thanks for your responses though :)
807559
In addition to what others have mentioned, there is an actual ext2fs driver available for Solaris. I don't know of a canonical source for it, but various copies are floating around the Internet

You can find the Solaris 9 version at http://paulf.free.fr/software.html
It may or may not work with Solaris 10. I've not seen any copies yet which say they're for Solaris 10, and I've not had a chance (or need!) to try it on 10 yet myself.
807559
The ones I have found for Solaris 10 were for an older beta version and require removing a line referencing va_code in vfsnops.c, but even after that the driver itself didn't work.
807559
Here's the link to where I found the extfs code:

http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/s86faq.html#9.23
807559
Can't find any drivers that give write access, and the widely availble ext2fs driver, has a bug ,so it can't read all extended partition chains.
Looking into fixing this, and adding write access.
807559
Linux can mount UFS partitions. There is even experimental write support for UFS in the latest linux kernels.
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