From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 4 8:12:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE7137BA2D for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 08:12:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk) Received: from mrbounce.compsoc.man.ac.uk ([192.84.78.5]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 12yc4p-000H0u-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 16:12:35 +0100 Received: from mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk (root@mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk [192.84.78.3]) by mrbounce.compsoc.man.ac.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA57155 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 16:12:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk) Received: (from jason@localhost) by mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id QAA17772 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 16:12:31 +0100 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 16:12:31 +0100 From: Jason Williams To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ext2fs Message-ID: <20000604161231.A16434@mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> Reply-To: jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk References: <20000604125213.L23241@mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <393A453F.12C15B7A@telocity.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <393A453F.12C15B7A@telocity.com>; from otterr@telocity.com on Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 08:02:07AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 08:02:07AM -0400, Otter wrote: > > I'm looking to replace the linux server with FreeBSD... will I run into > > any problems with ext2fs? Would it be better to transfer all the data > > to a ufs filesystem? > > Considering, that ufs is native to FreeBSD and ext2fs is only > "compatible", I'd say pack your bags. It's time to move. > -Otter Okay, sounds like good advice :-) Ideally though, I'd like to stick with ext2fs at least for a week or two in case something goes wrong and we have to switch back to the linux box. Will it work reliably and safely for that purpose? -- jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk secretary@compsoc.man.ac.uk admin@compsoc.org.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message