From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 20:47:41 2008 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 C84271065678 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:47:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E6078FC18 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:47:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 35871 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2008 20:47:40 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=h8z2urgy59TtjJPiGoq+yBZd2UIzemRWNzs4HlHNqWzIytjpIMkq/bqrIeyPiMD7wQhB+5jZ7AJKqK9ybmsXxgwsbu2XfQ5tuoAp+8HWu6uZPvrvXizsE7/07QFMWhbUXolcyBh+IFL5zcMf3iQaAFSp/dyVqGLzyy26S0+s8sE= ; Received: from unknown (HELO napoleon.local) (mike.jeays@rogers.com@99.224.75.182 with login) by smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Sep 2008 20:47:40 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: ktrgPKQVM1nWP8Q5UJM_sVttMOgruwNoNFTxX13Y2irMXwKK.on88FfJBYGqQ7Ffkw-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:47:39 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20080923201906.GB63895@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20080923201906.GB63895@ozzmosis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809231647.39554.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Subject: Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk? 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, 23 Sep 2008 20:47:41 -0000 I have an EXT2 USB flash drive on a FreeBSD system, and it works perfectly. I have also used EXT2 filesystems on IDE drives in a USB caddy, and they work fine as well. On September 23, 2008 04:19:06 pm andrew clarke wrote: > On Tue 2008-09-23 17:17:21 UTC+0200, Andreas Davour (ante@Update.UU.SE) wrote: > > I've bought a usb connected disk to use as backup, and I've been > > thinking about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do > > anyone here have any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would be > > best to use? Can ufs2 be read by linux? It looks like it from my short > > persual of google hits, but it also looks kind of complicated. IS ext2 a > > safer bet? Anything totally different? > > > > Any filesystem that can handle data from both BSD and Linux without too > > much metadata mangling would do. > > I'm not sure about UFS support in Linux. You would probably need to > ask on a Linux list. The man page for newfs says that you can create > UFS1 filesystems with it, which may help with compatibility? > > mount_ext2fs is available in FreeBSD but I can't speak for its > reliability. > > There is full read/write support for NTFS provided by > sysutils/fusefs-ntfs in the Ports tree. I suspect there are some > limitations though, eg. tighter restrictions than UFS on what > characters are permitted in filenames. > > For making backups I would probably just use FAT32 and tar, because > practically anything (not just FreeBSD & Linux) will mount FAT32 file > systems, and tar should respect your file attributes (owner, group, > creation timestamp, last modified timestamp, etc). > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca