Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-20 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/18/2007 2:17 AM Chad Perrin said the following: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:06:15AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: [snip] If FFS2 and EXT3 are ruled out, then what is remaining? ;) XFS? Maybe? My impression is that there isn't good UFS support in Linux, and that stable ext3

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-18 Thread User Ota
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 03:17:00AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:06:15AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > > > I generally shy away from any multiboot situation since I have few > > machines with me. Even then I too have to multiboot once in a while. > > I prefer to

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-18 Thread Mark D. Foster
Ivan Voras wrote: > ext2fs is "stable" in the sense that there are no known bugs, and it's > 100% compatible with Linux. It "just works". > > Unless you get frequent power outages or similar "hard" errors, the lack > of journaling shouldn't bother you much. I suggest that ext2+noatime is going to

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:06:30AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:39:31AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > >> Chad Perrin wrote: > >> > >>> That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to > >>> both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stab

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:06:15AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > I generally shy away from any multiboot situation since I have few > machines with me. Even then I too have to multiboot once in a while. I prefer to avoid multiboot as well, but for a while there it seemed unlikely that I'

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:39:31AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Chad Perrin wrote: >> >>> That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to >>> both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write access with >>> reasonably high access performance for bot

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:05:08 Dec 17, Chad Perrin wrote: > Are you suggesting I put the filesystem on another machine and use NFS to > make it available to both OSes on this machine? I'm looking to have a > filesystem on *this* machine that is available to both OSes, running one > at a time. > Chad, I saw your q

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:38:54AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: > > That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to > > both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write access with > > reasonably high access performance for both (fast enough to achieve > > decent fram

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:39:31AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > > > That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to > > both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write access with > > reasonably high access performance for both (fast enough to achi

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread David Robillard
> That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to > both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write access with > reasonably high access performance for both (fast enough to achieve > decent frame rates, for instance). This seems to rule out both ext3 and > UFS2. Wh

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Chad Perrin wrote: > That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to > both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write access with > reasonably high access performance for both (fast enough to achieve > decent frame rates, for instance). This seems to rule out both

common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-16 Thread Chad Perrin
I'm planning a reinstall on my laptop from scratch (making sure I have an up-to-date backup first, of course) as soon as there's a 7.0-RELEASE available, in which I will reorganize the filesystem and set up a FreeBSD and Linux dual-boot system. While the bulk of my work will be done on the FreeBSD