Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:17:00 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20071218101700.GA42187@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20071218053615.GA9154@brahma.susmita.org> References: <226ae0c60712170738m7b5f2a5dt6286fe336cd8dd88@mail.gmail.com> <20071218050508.GB41080@demeter.hydra> <20071218053615.GA9154@brahma.susmita.org>
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:06:15AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > I generally shy away from any multiboot situation since I have few > machines with me. Even then I too have to multiboot once in a while. I prefer to avoid multiboot as well, but for a while there it seemed unlikely that I'd be able to do everything on this system that I want to be able to do if all I have is FreeBSD. I've managed to realize that my impression of limitation was, in fact, a failure on my part -- and not on FreeBSD's -- some hours ago, however. As a result, it looks like I'll be able to solve the problem without installing some Linux distro after all. > > If FFS2 and EXT3 are ruled out, then what is remaining? ;) > > XFS? Maybe? My impression is that there isn't good UFS support in Linux, and that stable ext3 support is read-only in FreeBSD. If that's the case, then it really does seem to come down to a matter of figuring out whether XFS, JFS, or ReiserFS (to throw out a few examples) have stable read/write support in both Linux and FreeBSD systems. > > It is a tough choice indeed. Of course you could do a diskless boot off > an NFS and use that as file system for communication between the two > OSes. > > But for that you need another machine connected over LAN running NFS of > course. Yeah . . . this is a laptop, and I use it while traveling, so that wouldn't really suit my needs in this case. I appreciate the attempt, though. Anyway, as you may have gathered from an above paragraph of mine, it looks like I'm probably not going to need the Linux system after all. > > Sorry if my answer was irrelevant but this is the best I could do. It would be pretty harsh of me to say your best wasn't good enough. Thanks for the effort to help. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Baltasar Gracian: "A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
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