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In response to Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>:

> On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Jordi Carrillo wrote:
> > I was thinking about using rdiff-backup to do incremental backups  
> > and ext2 type filesystem, as I don't use windows at all. Ext2  
> > because I sometimes switch to Linux. I don't know if FFS is  
> > recognized by Linux.
> 
> I think modern flavors of Linux support FFS OK, so FFS should work,  
> otherwise ext2...

Note that I don't believe that any Linuxi support FFS2, but it's been
several months since I've checked.  I also seem to remember warnings
about buggy FFS drivers for Linux.  Are the ext2 drivers for FreeBSD
stable?

If you format FFS, make sure to do FFS1 -- FFS2 is the default in newer
versions of FreeBSD.  ext2 might be a safer bet.

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Bill Moran
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