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Date:      Mon, 4 Sep 2000 14:16:05 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Hanspeter Roth Bsag <roth@bsag.ch>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ext2fs support robust?
Message-ID:  <20000904141605.B14338@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000904100032.A21607@bs11.bsag.ch>; from "Hanspeter Roth Bsag" on Mon Sep  4 10:00:32 GMT 2000
References:  <20000903154433.A13312@bs11.bsag.ch> <20000903140003.D18862@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000904100032.A21607@bs11.bsag.ch>

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In the last episode (Sep 04), Hanspeter Roth Bsag said:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:00:03PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Hanspeter Roth Bsag <roth@bsag.ch> [000903 06:44] wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > has somebody experiance in running ext2fs under FreeBsd?
> > > Can one expect it to be robust?
> > > Can Ext2fs be exported via NFS with write access?
> > > (I'm considering replaceing a linux server with home and project fs
> > > as ext2fs.)
> > 
> > It's ok, but you're much better off using FreeBSD's native UFS.
> 
> So what is the difference except performance?
> 
> (If FreeBSD would offer good Nfs with locking I would convert the
> file systems later. But in case I will switch back to Linux I
> want to keep them as ext2fs.)

FreeBSD offers much better NFS than Linux, and for most people the only
thing they need NFS locking for is mail delivery, and dotlocking works
just as well in that case.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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