From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 00:08:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747BC16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:08:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw-bj2.datamax.bg (datamax.wl.bitex.com [195.34.115.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B7643D6D for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:08:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vd@datamax.bg) Received: from sinanica.lg2a.datamax (sinanica.lg2a.datamax [192.168.10.1]) by gw-bj2.datamax.bg (Postfix) with QMQP id 418F187C8; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:08:02 +0200 (EET) Received: (nullmailer pid 18763 invoked by uid 1001); Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:08:01 -0000 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:08:01 +0200 From: Vasil Dimov To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040323080801.GA18453@sinanica.lg2a.datamax> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11F383396235D511994B00A0C9E1753772122D@INDEC-NTSERVER> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: ron.joordens@indec.com.au Subject: Best filesysyem for FreeBSD & Linux shared partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: vd@datamax.bg List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:08:05 -0000 > Hello Everyone, > > I am multibooting FreeBSD with a few Linux distributions such as Mandrake, > Gentoo, Slackware, Red Hat. (I'll reduce that list to a couple of favourites > eventually). > > I have set up a primary partition with ext2 filesystem to act as a single > data partition accessable from all OSs. That seemed to be fine until > recently when I ran out of room on my FreeBSD /usr directory and moved my > /usr/ports/distfiles directory to the shared ext2fs partition. At first > there seemed to be no problems but when I tried to upgrade KDE and XFree86 > using portupgrade the error messages began. > > XFree86 always encountered errors when checking the checksums of the source > tarballs. It would say at first that the checksums were ok but then > immediately after crash sying that there were crc errors. > > KDE was more serious. It would almost immediately crash with a Fatal Trap 12 > error and reboot. > > After finding nothing on the on the forums I finally moved the distfiles to > a new drive which I formatted with the FreeBSD ufs filesystem. VOILA!! No > more problems. > > So it seems that FreeBSD support for ext2fs is at fault. > > So what is the best filesystem to use for a shared partition? For example, > does FreeBSD provide better support for ext3fs or resierfs? Or does Linux > provide better support for ufs? > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks in advance, > > Ron Yes: "FreeBSD support for ext2fs is at fault" also is the "Linux support for UFS". I suggest using FAT32 if you do not care about 755 permissions and root:wheel owner on all files (/usr/ports/distfiles is a good example for this). You can also try sysutils/e2fsprogs and/or sysutils/linux-e2fsprogs from the ports.