From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 22:25:43 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 49E231065677 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:25:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from smtp.mel.people.net.au (smtp.mel.people.net.au [218.214.17.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 803D58FC18 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:25:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: (qmail 22109 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2008 22:25:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blizzard.dnsalias.org) (218.215.144.151) by smtp.mel.people.net.au with SMTP; 23 Sep 2008 22:25:26 -0000 Received: by blizzard.dnsalias.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BE8A417091; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:25:39 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:25:39 +1000 From: andrew clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080923222539.GA83113@ozzmosis.com> References: <20080923201906.GB63895@ozzmosis.com> <48D95BFC.5070508@shopzeus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48D95BFC.5070508@shopzeus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 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 22:25:43 -0000 On Tue 2008-09-23 23:13:32 UTC+0200, Laszlo Nagy (gandalf@shopzeus.com) wrote: >> 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). > > Except that you cannot create files with >4GB size on FAT32. You might > be able to use an archiver that is able to split archives into smaller > parts. Ah yes, I'd totally forgotten about that, sorry. i would probably split the tarballs in a way similar to how the FreeBSD distribution tarballs are split, but it's not pretty. > This has always been a problem. FreeBSD is open source. So Linux is, but > they do not have a common filesystem that could be accessed from both > system, WITHOUT compromises. :-( Are there compromises with using ext2fs under FreeBSD? Perhaps there should be ufs or ext2fs modules for FUSE, in an ideal world :-)