Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:06:54 +0100 From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o?= Carlos Mendes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs?= <jonny@jonny.eng.br> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ext2 filesystem lockups Message-ID: <1109203614.577.5.camel@bsd.trippelsdorf.de> In-Reply-To: <421D052D.3030909@jonny.eng.br> References: <1109172559.702.13.camel@bsd.trippelsdorf.de> <421D052D.3030909@jonny.eng.br>
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On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 19:35 -0300, Jo=E3o Carlos Mendes Lu=EDs wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:29:19PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > >=20 > >>When copying large files to a locally mounted ext2 filesystem > >>my system always locks up. > >>Is this a known problem in 64bit mode? >=20 > Just curious: what is the drive interface with the ext2fs? IDE? Yes, it's the normal IDE interface (ATA UDMA133 drive). > The very same hardware is now on 32-bit mode FreeBSD 5.3-stable, without=20 > any problems at all. >=20 > >>Which filesystem is recommended for multi-OS file exchange? =20 > >=20 > > I've heard enought reports of ext2 problems on 32-bit i386, that I don'= t > > trust it in situations that "have to work". By far the most widely > > supported FS is vfat32 [mount_msdosfs(8)]. >=20 > The last time I had to use msdosfs, on 4.* it was extremely slow=20 > compared to UFS on the same disk. Did this get better on 5.*? I want to use the filesystem for my music collection, so I'm willing to trade fastness for reliability. __ Markus
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