From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 30 17:03:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3A36F16A403 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:03:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3172C43D90 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:03:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:13148 helo=mail.aseed.net) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1FwMPB-000KjN-Uu; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:03:46 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.net (unknown [192.168.0.85]) by mail.aseed.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2554841411; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:03:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from amandla (217-19-30-147.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.30.147]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D4C57E11; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:03:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:03:44 +0200 From: albi To: "Jim Stapleton" Message-Id: <20060630190344.a71cc40a.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20606300944y57a8d7bfqba7dd75ab32fdf46@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20606300944y57a8d7bfqba7dd75ab32fdf46@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.18; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions on EXT3 vs standard BSD partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:03:57 -0000 On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:44:21 -0400 "Jim Stapleton" wrote: > I have to move between BSD and Linux on one system quite a bit, and I > was wondering if there were any reasons to avoid EXT3 on a filesystem > (such as /dev/ad0s1), as opposed to using the more standard BSD setups > (such as UFS on /dev/ad0s1a)? I'm thinking mostly in terms of > reliability, but also in terms of flexibility and speed. > > Is there anything that should absolutely stay in UFS (such as /boot?) as a side-note : last time i used an ext3 usb-disc on FreeBSD 5.4 there was still a problem with automatically unmounting at a shutdown/reboot leaving the ext3-filesystem "dirty", and could not be mounted after the reboot until a fsck was done, haven't tried this with 6.x yet