The following reply was made to PR docs/88512; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Dylan Cochran" <a134qaed@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc: "Tom Rhodes" <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, ivoras@fer.hr
Subject: Re: docs/88512: [patch] mount_ext2fs(8) man page has no details on
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:52:09 -0500
It's not a bug that FreeBSD only has a ext2fs driver, so it should be
a sort of note for ext2fs(5), it supports ext2 filesystems only,
however, if e2fsck is ran on an ext3 filesystem, it becomes nearly
identical to an ext2 filesystem, and can be mounted. When the journal
feature is in use, it must always be e2fsck'd before mounting, due to
normal filesystem consistancy issues. There are corner cases where it
can be dangerous to not follow that exact procedure, due to a wide
range of ext2 filesystem driver implementations available for
different kernels.
It's become so common of an issue that I have an automatic 'run
e2fsck' response whenever 'ext3' and 'freebsd' are mentioned in the
same sentence.
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