Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:38:03 -0500 From: User Ota <ota@animenfo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20071218233803.GA6861@noah.ota.homelinux.net> In-Reply-To: <20071218101700.GA42187@demeter.hydra> References: <226ae0c60712170738m7b5f2a5dt6286fe336cd8dd88@mail.gmail.com> <20071218050508.GB41080@demeter.hydra> <20071218053615.GA9154@brahma.susmita.org> <20071218101700.GA42187@demeter.hydra>
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 03:17:00AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > 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." > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" If you feel like being adventerous, FAT/FAT32 :P Russell Doucette
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