Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:51:10 -0300 From: Gustavo De Nardin <gustavodn@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD? Message-ID: <AANLkTik5q45KhoYA8EHMRjwNNAZnR4kD4vWWhTfnsP8o@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinC3gPAhxAMdGx-NpJccgrsYx7d5Oo__CrHN1CK@mail.gmail.com> References: <4c739685.g1aaLUnEPIT1pDne%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> <AANLkTinC3gPAhxAMdGx-NpJccgrsYx7d5Oo__CrHN1CK@mail.gmail.com>
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On 24 August 2010 20:48, Gustavo De Nardin <gustavodn@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24 August 2010 06:53, Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> wrote= : >> What is the best choice for a file system that can be read, and safely w= ritten to, by Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD? > > I've been trying NTFS(-3g). It's been going well, with even occasional > Windows thrown in the mix. But it is very slow, mostly, I believe, due > to being an userspace implementation. And I do keep backups. I thought I must correct myself: the problem is not exaclt it being slow, but rather using a lot of CPU. On non fast machines, you may easily be bound by the CPU, not I/O. >> With NetBSD through 5.1_RC3, I got "unsupported inode size" when trying = to mount Linux ext2fs partition from NetBSD. > > I've tested ext2/3 in the past, found it very risky to mix OSs (Linux > and FreeBSD only, though). FreeBSD's Ext2 seemed very lacky regarding > new FS features. I wouldn't risk it. > > >> There is the obvious possibility of using msdos (FAT32); I could run Fre= eDOS on such a partition as well as using the partition to share data betwe= en Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD, and FreeDOS too. =C2=A0Drawback is some probl= ems getting long file names straight, and lack of case sensitivity. =C2=A0B= ut maybe FAT32 is the safest choice? > > IMHO NTFS should be better, also, NTFS-3G has an (opensource > friendly?) company behind it: > http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ > > >> Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD are supposed to be able to read and write NTFS= partition, but I see from a very recent thread on this list, subject "Re: = External HD", that writing to NTFS partition is very dangerous, and I figur= e that would be also true for NetBSD and Linux, and any other non-MS-Window= s-NT-line OS that might have support for NTFS. > > I haven't seen recent horror stories about NTFS use on Linux, since > the userspace/fuse implementations. Haven't had any problemas myself > too. Except for a hiccup: one of the implementations (can't remember > which) would semi-silently ignore files/paths for which it couldn't > parse the charset, that it, it didn't copy the files/dirs, also didn't > error, just spit some mumbling in dmesg (this was on Linux also). So > beware of your FS charset. > > As Joshua Isom mentioned, there's also UDF. But IIRC FreeBSD wasn't > able to write on it when I checked. Also slow compared to native FSs > (same league or worse than the userspace NTFSs). I'd love to go with > UDF, if only it had better support/performance. > > And don't underestimate your backups. > > -- > (nil) > --=20 (nil)
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