From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 09:08:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A59106564A for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:08:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de [217.11.53.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC838FC08 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:07:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p5B32E668.dip.t-dialin.net [91.50.230.104]) by mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 57796844012; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:48:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from unknown (IO.Leidinger.net [192.168.2.110]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4727B2441; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:48:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:48:46 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Oliver Fromme Message-ID: <20110215094846.000014ba@unknown> In-Reply-To: <201102141543.p1EFhKwi087340@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <201102141543.p1EFhKwi087340@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EBL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EBL-MailScanner-ID: 57796844012.A4EEA X-EBL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EBL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, spamhaus-ZEN, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0.2, required 6, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, J_CHICKENPOX_32 0.60, J_CHICKENPOX_45 0.60) X-EBL-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-EBL-MailScanner-Watermark: 1298364533.56564@RCJhoaP07FA82LjHuGGQEg X-EBL-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ext2fs: ext2 vs. ext3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:08:00 -0000 On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:43:20 +0100 (CET) Oliver Fromme wrote: > The media player is Linux-based, so I can't use UFS. Even > worse, it refuses to mount ext2, while ext3 seems to work > fine. So my only choice is to format the disk with ext3, > because FAT has a 4 GB limit and NTFS is unsupported on > FreeBSD for practical purposes. The sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port does not work for you? > Now here's my question: Are there any problems to be > expected when mounting an ext3fs partition alternately on > a Linux machine and a FreeBSD machine? Both will mount it > read+write (the media player writes some index or cache > files to it). > > As far as I know, FreeBSD supports ext2 only, and even > though ext3 is supposed to be backwards compatible, FreeBSD > doesn't know how to handle the ext3 journal. Can this > cause any problems in the long run? There is some GSoC code in P4 which made some extensions regarding ext3/ext4 (see http://wiki.freebsd.org/SOC2010ZhengLiu). The author is probably able to tell you more what you can expect from the code in 8.x and his extensions. Bye, Alexander.