From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 13:15:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedex.is.co.za (fedex.is.co.za [196.4.160.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF4337B403 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 13:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c1-pta-98.dial-up.net (c1-pta-98.dial-up.net [196.34.158.98]) by fedex.is.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA55196; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 22:15:09 +0200 (SAST) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 22:17:21 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper X-X-Sender: To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: , Wijnand Wiersma , Subject: Re: sharing between freebsd & linux In-Reply-To: <01100420433001.07512@i8k.babbleon.org> Message-ID: <20011007221107.E59284-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > > > Yes, http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD-3.html > > > > Be careful, though. I haven't tried to do it in a couple of years, > > but I've had troubles both ways with sharing partitions between freebsd > > & linux. > > > > FreeBSD randomly inserted garbage during file-writes to an ext2. This > > was a couple of years ago, but I haven't had anyone tell me that it's > > been fixed, and I've mentioned it a few times. erm....its swap space not a filesystem so I wonder if you mean the same thing, yes ext2fs was somewhat dodgy a VERY long time ago and fixed (could have been when they were actively WORKING on it in development) > > I don't know whether UFS write support is marked experimental or not in > > Linux last I saw it was marked as unreliable but havent used linux in a while for personal extensive use, Im now on FreeBSD EVERYWHERE I can use it:) > > Also, if you try to mount in the wring direction as the wrong file > > system (I think it was linux attempting to mount a bsd slice as a linux > > partition, which can happen after a change in partitions), you trash > > the partition table. You can manually recreate it, but it's a pain. no experience with such an outcome so cant say, just you may have a YMMV there as mines all worked fine, > > When I need to share files, I generally do it by copying them to a dos > > partition, which both bsd and linux reliablly support. > I used to share in both directions without any problems. I don't any more > merely because I no longer have a Linux partition. Same results here , left Linux a long time ago. PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message