Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:25:27 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Subject: Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze... Message-ID: <201102061925.28021.lobo@bsd.com.br> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikYF6S0CTj3vZs7SfOTxae8yRX63Lwq9B6u8qz6@mail.gmail.com> References: <4D4DF58D.2040506@computer.org> <4D4EC7CB.7010200@computer.org> <AANLkTikYF6S0CTj3vZs7SfOTxae8yRX63Lwq9B6u8qz6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 06 February 2011 17:48:45 Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org>wrote: > > I realize NTFS on fBSD has been shaky in the past, but had heard it had > > come a long way these days. It does seem to work well for all my > > purposes, except these VMs. Had hoped NTFS was not the issue. > > ntfs/ntfs-3g is foolhardy at best in linux *and* fbsd ... it's trashed so > many drives.partitions on me it's not even funny anymore... and I never did > much w/ them except small stuff anyway. If you need to access the volumes > in *nix/windows then why not FAT32 then? I use a FAT32 drive for my music > so I can access it in any OS reliably and the drive is now 6+ years old. FAT32 max file size is 4Gig. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)
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