Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:13:32 +0200 From: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk? Message-ID: <48D95BFC.5070508@shopzeus.com> In-Reply-To: <20080923201906.GB63895@ozzmosis.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809231714040.31780@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <20080923201906.GB63895@ozzmosis.com>
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> For making backups I would probably just use FAT32 and tar, because > practically anything (not just FreeBSD & Linux) will mount FAT32 file > systems, and tar should respect your file attributes (owner, group, > creation timestamp, last modified timestamp, etc). > Except that you cannot create files with >4GB size on FAT32. You might be able to use an archiver that is able to split archives into smaller parts. This has always been a problem. FreeBSD is open source. So Linux is, but they do not have a common filesystem that could be accessed from both system, WITHOUT compromises. :-( Best, Laszlo
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