How is the current status mounting ext4/2fs on OI?

hd_scania · 06-03-2020, 11:12 PM

On the Oracle’s Solaris wikies it just HASN’T mentioned anything on mounting ext4/2fs’es on Solaris and its distroes (One i need to taste is OpenIndiana, OI)
And on OI’s own wikies it still HASN’T HAD explicit infoes on supports for ext4/2fs’es

fatmac · 06-04-2020, 04:26 AM

A lot of BSD & unix will only mount their own file systems, (often ffs/ufs/zfs).

Some provide other software drivers that can be installed, but usually just for dos & sometimes ext2.

They aren't interested in that particular type of interoperability, they tend to use ftp servers for sharing data with other O/S.

jlliagre · 06-05-2020, 05:05 AM

Solaris kernel, whether Oracle or Illumos based will more than likely never natively support ext*fs due to licensing issues.

One alternative would be leveraging fuse and ext4fuse which states:

> I've heard that OpenSolaris should also work.

but that's a bit of a lightweight statement and not very recent...

Otherwise, you should be able to mount the partition from a Linux VM running under VirtualBox and share it through NFS.

kebabbert · 12-01-2020, 09:07 AM

I had a Windows VM in VirtualBox on Solaris 11. This Windows had access to a raw file, i.e. the NTFS hard disk. So Windows could access my NTFS disk. So I accessed my NTFS files from Solaris, via Windows VM.