World: r3wp

Had a power outage in town, and my red hat server had to be shut 
down uncleanly since although it was protected by a UPS, the screen 
wasn't.  On rebooting, the raid array had become critical with one 
of the drives dead.  Unfortunately the good drive had developed a 
corrupted file system as well :(

Since it was IDE raid ( fasttrack 100 ) I was able to look at the 
file system using this http://www.fs-driver.orgcool tool that allows 
you to browse ext2 file systems from windows!

Lucky it wasn't ext3, hey ?

(It might have been harder to find an equivalent tool.)

is it possible to downgrade an ext3 disk to ext2?

There's a FAQ on the site about Ext3 access.

Maybe it is ext3, because read-only it behaves like ext2

Anyway, if it were ext3, it would probably have repaired itself

ext3 is identical to ex2 except for the journal, so you can access 
it as ext2 without problems for windows, it just won't update the 
journal.

i had a read/write driver installed on windows and used it regularly 
without problems.

I'm looking for an OSX driver, but there appears to be only an ext2 
one, and it will only mount my ext3 drive as read-only.

which is why I was interested in downgrading it to ext2.

I set the driver to read only ... as I didn't want to corrupt the 
original disk.  Now all my files that I extracted are apparently 
read only ! :(

henrik, i think it is possible to disable the journal with tune2fs... 
let me check...

tune2fs -O ^has_journal

WARNING: do this at your own risk. make sure the FS is clean, without 
errors etc., and make sure you have backups.

i have no idea if this just destroys your FS.

(btw, I wonder why the Windows and OSX drivers don't support extr3??)

the OSX version is just not developed. the project is dead.

anyone using ZFS then? I'm tired of being bound to an OS with a file 
system.

Same for me. I tried MacDrive for Windows to get access to HFS+ drives. 
The problem is that XP silently initialized your drive with the result 
that OSX won't recognize it anymore but the HFS+ structure is still 
valid.


I fixed this, by using iPartition and changed the name of the drive. 
This results in the GPT being writting new and than the drive was 
OK. Lucky...

ZFS: I looked a bit into it. I think it's a very nice FS. OSX has 
only read support, so not of much value.

(yet)

If you were to have one Linux to start testing R3 builds on, which 
Linux would it be? Carl wants to know.

I would say ubuntu

One vote for Ubuntu :)

We need electronic ink as I already know that Tippin is going to 
vote twice for debian.  ;-)

That's why I asked. It's an informal poll, but not a secret one :)

I'm not voting, btw - I don't know enough about which Linux is the 
most popular in the REBOL community, and I use Windows :(

Ubuntu

which is Debian based ...

RedHat. (but Ubuntu will do as well). I would just say go for the 
one that has the largest community.

RedHat as a business is doing well.

Another vote for Ubuntu

Also note that rebdev is running on Ubuntu

I vote for Debian or Ubuntu

Debian allows you to start with an ISO image as small as 32 Mb, as 
seen here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst

Although it will download quite a bit more during the installation 
process.

Kubuntu, because it's using KDE.

Debian, as many small Live Cds use it as a base

I was used to Fedora (hence RedHat), but will now move to Ubuntu 
Server too. So - Ubuntu on my side ...

Debian

best way to start small and I use it for all my servers.

Isn't Debian and Ubuntu support the same ?

I think debian is (originally) more focused on servers whereas Ubuntu 
directly comes with GUI etc.

Ubuntu here too.

Ubuntu for me too.

Debian, but Ubuntu is fine as well.

I vote for Kubuntu

There´s no difference between Ubuntu and Kubuntu for porting REBOL 
- as long as you compare the same versions

There is a porting difference between Ubuntu and Debian, though; 
and between Ubuntu versions