Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:59:23 +0200 From: "Jordi Carrillo" <jordilin@gmail.com> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Backing up Message-ID: <94ff3700609051359la8926f0hc0cc701001d120b1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060905165313.c7dc1f11.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <94ff3700609051322m1c63420xe5e6e379a21906b2@mail.gmail.com> <62577AB3-E7BF-488F-8903-8DE9BB53452B@mac.com> <94ff3700609051341g57aae9b1gb7ce05f04f3c2d12@mail.gmail.com> <121D3BD0-623D-4019-94ED-BA271481D830@mac.com> <20060905165313.c7dc1f11.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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Just a doubt: FFS is not the same as UFS (unix filesystem)??? I installed FreeBSD and let FreeBSD to partition my hard drive and in fstab I have the partitions mounted as UFS. thanks 2006/9/5, Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>: > > In response to Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>: > > > On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Jordi Carrillo wrote: > > > I was thinking about using rdiff-backup to do incremental backups > > > and ext2 type filesystem, as I don't use windows at all. Ext2 > > > because I sometimes switch to Linux. I don't know if FFS is > > > recognized by Linux. > > > > I think modern flavors of Linux support FFS OK, so FFS should work, > > otherwise ext2... > > Note that I don't believe that any Linuxi support FFS2, but it's been > several months since I've checked. I also seem to remember warnings > about buggy FFS drivers for Linux. Are the ext2 drivers for FreeBSD > stable? > > If you format FFS, make sure to do FFS1 -- FFS2 is the default in newer > versions of FreeBSD. ext2 might be a safer bet. > > -- > Bill Moran > Collaborative Fusion Inc. > -- http://jordilin.wordpress.com
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