Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:48:46 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ext2fs: ext2 vs. ext3 Message-ID: <20110215094846.000014ba@unknown> In-Reply-To: <201102141543.p1EFhKwi087340@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:43:20 +0100 (CET) Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > The media player is Linux-based, so I can't use UFS. Even > worse, it refuses to mount ext2, while ext3 seems to work > fine. So my only choice is to format the disk with ext3, > because FAT has a 4 GB limit and NTFS is unsupported on > FreeBSD for practical purposes. The sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port does not work for you? > Now here's my question: Are there any problems to be > expected when mounting an ext3fs partition alternately on > a Linux machine and a FreeBSD machine? Both will mount it > read+write (the media player writes some index or cache > files to it). > > As far as I know, FreeBSD supports ext2 only, and even > though ext3 is supposed to be backwards compatible, FreeBSD > doesn't know how to handle the ext3 journal. Can this > cause any problems in the long run? There is some GSoC code in P4 which made some extensions regarding ext3/ext4 (see http://wiki.freebsd.org/SOC2010ZhengLiu). The author is probably able to tell you more what you can expect from the code in 8.x and his extensions. Bye, Alexander.home | help
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