From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 18 10:17:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3EC16A419 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:17:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-56.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-56.bluehost.com [69.89.20.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87A0E13C447 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:17:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 12222 invoked by uid 0); 18 Dec 2007 10:17:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by mailproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 18 Dec 2007 10:17:03 -0000 Received: from c-24-9-123-251.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.123.251] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J4ZVW-0002X8-T7 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:17:03 -0700 Received: from demeter.hydra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lBIAH1vF042855 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:17:01 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (from ren@localhost) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id lBIAH0Pu042854 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:17:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) X-Authentication-Warning: demeter.hydra: ren set sender to perrin@apotheon.com using -f Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:17:00 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071218101700.GA42187@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <226ae0c60712170738m7b5f2a5dt6286fe336cd8dd88@mail.gmail.com> <20071218050508.GB41080@demeter.hydra> <20071218053615.GA9154@brahma.susmita.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071218053615.GA9154@brahma.susmita.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.net} {sentby:bopbeforesmtp 24.9.123.251 authed with apotheon.com} Subject: Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD 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: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:17:03 -0000 On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:06:15AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > I generally shy away from any multiboot situation since I have few > machines with me. Even then I too have to multiboot once in a while. I prefer to avoid multiboot as well, but for a while there it seemed unlikely that I'd be able to do everything on this system that I want to be able to do if all I have is FreeBSD. I've managed to realize that my impression of limitation was, in fact, a failure on my part -- and not on FreeBSD's -- some hours ago, however. As a result, it looks like I'll be able to solve the problem without installing some Linux distro after all. > > If FFS2 and EXT3 are ruled out, then what is remaining? ;) > > XFS? Maybe? My impression is that there isn't good UFS support in Linux, and that stable ext3 support is read-only in FreeBSD. If that's the case, then it really does seem to come down to a matter of figuring out whether XFS, JFS, or ReiserFS (to throw out a few examples) have stable read/write support in both Linux and FreeBSD systems. > > It is a tough choice indeed. Of course you could do a diskless boot off > an NFS and use that as file system for communication between the two > OSes. > > But for that you need another machine connected over LAN running NFS of > course. Yeah . . . this is a laptop, and I use it while traveling, so that wouldn't really suit my needs in this case. I appreciate the attempt, though. Anyway, as you may have gathered from an above paragraph of mine, it looks like I'm probably not going to need the Linux system after all. > > Sorry if my answer was irrelevant but this is the best I could do. It would be pretty harsh of me to say your best wasn't good enough. Thanks for the effort to help. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Baltasar Gracian: "A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends."