Mount an ext3 partition with a 16k blocksize?

Block sizes >4KiB are only available on architectures which support larger virtual memory pages (e.g. Alpha, Itanium).

It's possible to use fuseext2 to mount the drive. I recently did this and while it worked, it was very unstable. Not sure if it was the drive, SATA controller or the fuse module. The mount would disappear randomly. I ended up having to watch an rsync job for 2 weeks, if it crashed, I would have to recreate the mount and start the job up again.

The basic mount command is:

fuseext2 -o sync_read,allow_other,ro /dev/c/c /mnt/readynas

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