From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 12 16:14: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from net.2y.net (syr-24-169-88-149.twcny.rr.com [24.169.88.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CEB937B9F6 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 16:14:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bks10@cornell.edu) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by net.2y.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e7CNEZE23994 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 19:14:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: net.2y.net: nobody set sender to using -f Received: from UNKNOWN(192.168.1.5), claiming to be "cornell.edu" via SMTP by warsaw.2y.net, id smtpdvW4076; Sat Aug 12 19:14:29 2000 Message-ID: <3995DA3E.CBDFB8AA@cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 19:14:06 -0400 From: Brian Szymanski X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: can freebsd read openbsd slices? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Howdy, I am thinking of moving a fileserver from OpenBSD to FreeBSD because both Samba and NFS seem unreliable for heavy duty access under OpenBSD (backing up a win box causes a kernel panic after a few minutes, copying any directory with more than about 50 entries causes the NFS server to hang)... So I have two questions: 1 - Will FreeBSD be more reliable for this? Is it the best platform for this out of the x86 unices? (try to be unbiased, please :-) 2 - It'll be a major pain for me to back up the /home partition, so I'm wondering if I can just leave a slice on it, install FreeBSD on the rest somehow, and then use that slice from FreeBSD transparently? Thanks for reading, Brian Szymanski bks10@cornell.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message