Re: Re: Which SOHO 1 Terebyte JBOD and PCMCIA SCSI Adaptor for ZFS?

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From: Paul Floyd <paulf <at> free.fr>
> Quoting sol11x86 <at> comcast.net:
> 
> > I'd agree with that. If you have valid fdisk partitions (FAT32, SOLARIS)
> > and valid file systems, you're probably ok.  If you have a botched
> > partition table, failing drive or bad file systems, both 1394 and USB
> > can act pretty badly.  I've also had not much luck dealing with
> > 1394/USB with new drives (ie, No FDISK partition).
> >
> > Even with that, I swear, what does it take to get extended partition
> > support for Solaris. 
> 
> Hi
> 
> You can mount FAT and ro EXT2/3 extended partitions.

I haven't dealt with extended EXT2/3 partitions unless I'm using qemu
to access them. OTOH, I suspect part of my problem has
been 2048 byte block FAT32 partitions which have been giving me
grief.  This has been an insightful discussion so far.  I just never
knew enough about FAT32 to know why it didn't work, but just
that at one point it did, and then later it did not.  I

Ben

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