Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:25:39 +1000 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk? Message-ID: <20080923222539.GA83113@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <48D95BFC.5070508@shopzeus.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809231714040.31780@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <20080923201906.GB63895@ozzmosis.com> <48D95BFC.5070508@shopzeus.com>
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On Tue 2008-09-23 23:13:32 UTC+0200, Laszlo Nagy (gandalf@shopzeus.com) wrote: >> 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. Ah yes, I'd totally forgotten about that, sorry. i would probably split the tarballs in a way similar to how the FreeBSD distribution tarballs are split, but it's not pretty. > 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. :-( Are there compromises with using ext2fs under FreeBSD? Perhaps there should be ufs or ext2fs modules for FUSE, in an ideal world :-)
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