Ext3fs file system access on Sparc SCSI disk

Question

We've got a requirement to read data from a SCSI disk with an ext3fs file system which will be connected to a SunBlade system. Write capability would be a bonus.
We've found some old (and not working) implementations to allow Solaris to mount and read ext2, but these don't work on Sparc. Things like LTools won't work either, since Solaris won't allow access to a SCSI disk that doesn't have a Solaris label on it.
Does anyone know of any possible solutions to this problem? Any one know of ext3fs for Solaris? Any one know how to access an internal SCSI disk on Sparc that doesn't have a Solaris label on it?
Thanks
Ed

Answer 1

Hmmmmmm........Thanks for the suggestions - have written a test and the results arent good.
Using file filter to "find" the file is just too slow (1.4 secs and i need to do this 4million times for my application).
So I understand why the filter is slow compared to directly naming the file as we have to accept/reject them all, whereas if we know the file we can go straight to it. But this is a nightmare for my app. Looks like Im going to have to think again....
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    String dir = "/path/files";
    File dirf = new File(dir);
    long l = System.currentTimeMillis();
    File f1 = new File(dirf,"TheRealFile.3253.ser"); // The file in the 30,000 we want
    InputStream i = new FileInputStream(f1);
    System.err.println("--> "+i.read());
    i.close();
    System.err.println("Took: "+(System.currentTimeMillis()-l)+" ms");
    // Test 2
    FileFilter ffx = new FileFilter() {
      public boolean accept(File s) {
        return s.isFile() &&
               s.getName().startsWith("TheRealFile")
               && s.getName().endsWith(".ser");
    l = System.currentTimeMillis();
    File [] f2 = dirf.listFiles(ffx);
    //System.err.println("Found: "+f2[0]);
    InputStream i2 = new FileInputStream(f2[0]);
    System.err.println("--> "+i2.read());
    i2.close();
    System.err.println("Took: "+(System.currentTimeMillis()-l)+" ms");
--> 172
Took: 0 ms
--> 172
Took: 1482 ms