@Thematic you can do that even with the 68k version on aminet, once installed if you put for example an ntfs formatted drive in an USB port it immediately show up on workbench, the same for ext2/ext3 filesystems
you can do that even with the 68k version on aminet, once installed if you put for example an ntfs formatted drive in an USB port it immediately show up on workbench, the same for ext2/ext3 filesystems
While you are right about ntfs being auto mounted, there is no code for recognising and mounting ext2 or ext3 partitions in the massstorage driver (I just checked its source code) so you must be mistaken about that.
1. will e2fsprogs be available as command-line tools?
Yes, that is the intention.
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2. any early indications on performance?
Not yet.
What I have noted though is that the Ext2FileSystem binary is a lot smaller (about 80%) than the NTFileSystem3G one. That being said NTFS3G has format support which is missing from Ext2FS currently so it's not a completely fair comparison.
Console output from a first test run of mke2fs port (ext2/ext3 format command): Quote:
7.RAM Disk:> mke2fs EXT1 mke2fs 1.41.9 (30-May-2009) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 262144 inodes, 1048576 blocks 52428 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=1073741824 32 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 8192 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736
you can do that even with the 68k version on aminet, once installed if you put for example an ntfs formatted drive in an USB port it immediately show up on workbench, the same for ext2/ext3 filesystems
While you are right about ntfs being auto mounted, there is no code for recognising and mounting ext2 or ext3 partitions in the massstorage driver (I just checked its source code) so you must be mistaken about that.
sorry my fault, you where right, I'm being to old and my memory sometimes fail to work anyway even if all worked like I described, I'd like to say that a native version with support for files bigger than 2GB, it's a great thing, so I have to thank you for your work
I just added format support in the file system itself and fixed a couple of bugs. Read-write mode still has a problem that need to be fixed somehow in that the fuse-ext2 fsync() operation takes a too long time to execute and blocks all other file system operations.
The source code of AmigaOS 4.x filesysbox.library will be available under APL license as that is the way Leif Salomonsson made it available. Note that it's rewritten to use the new dos.library vector port API so it might not be of much use for an AROS port.