[H-GEN] Best FS for use with multiple Unix variants

Daniel Devine devine at ddevnet.net
Sat Aug 15 21:22:48 EDT 2009


The answer is probably Fat32 which has a pretty major restriction
which I am sure you already know of.

EXT support for FreeBSD and Solaris is quite bad as far as I know and
I am unsure about Mac OSX.

If you want a FS that can handle files greater than 3.5 GB then I
think you will have to use fuse modules. With the use of fuse you
could actually use ZFS on all of these systems (yay!).

Of course- just transferring over the (Gbit) LAN  and having the disks
and formatted in whatever FS suits the system they are attached to is
how I would deal with this.

Just use whatever utility that can deal with the file system. The
tools are usually built into the respective OS.

On 8/16/09, Greg Black <gjb at yaxom.com> wrote:
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> I have some external HDDs (both eSATA and USB) that I use for
> additional backups of data on my home network.  The machines on
> the home network run a mix of FreeBSD (UFS), Linux (ext2, ext3),
> Mac OS-X (HFS+) and Solaris (ZFS).
>
> What I need is an on-disk FS that I can use that will allow all
> those systems to both write and read the external disk.  Since
> some of the machines are limited to USB, the result has to work
> for an external USB disk.
>
> If anybody has an answer and preferably the utility and OS to
> use to setup the disk in the first place, I'd be grateful for
> pointers.
>
> This is not an invitation to speculate, as I can do that myself
> and have already done quite a bit of it without a useful
> result.  Please reply direct to me.  I will provide a summary of
> the information to the list when I have a result.
>
> Greg
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