[oi-dev] ext2 on OI Hipster 20151003 follow-up

[Jean-Pierre André]

Bruce Lilly wrote:
> NTFS wouldn't be practical for me; it is a "foreign" filesystem as far
> as all of the installed OSes
> are concerned.  Changing file modes would be a considerable problem,

What is this file mode changing about ?

> and then there are
> issues of mapping user and group IDs and possibly modification time,

I am not aware of a modification time issue. I have just
discovered there is an access time issue, caused by vfs
reading from its own cache, without ntfs-3g being notified.

> not to mention tools
> availability (fsck, etc.).

There are several tools included in Hipster(resizing,
cloning, undeleting, etc.)

You can also run the Windows chkdsk on OpenIndiana :
http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/runwin.zip
(you will have to recompile using a compiler
compatible with Windows, if you have difficulties
ask me for an executable).

Jean-Pierre