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

Tony Bilbrough tony at bilbrough.com.au
Sun Aug 16 08:04:44 EDT 2009


G'day All,
nice to see that we are once more back on sensible computer discussion.
The childish rhetoric of these past weeks has been  bland and unnecessary.
No matter what our more literary artistic protagonists may believe.

If I am not be able to make it to the meeting on September 5 I will give 
my vote to Russell Stuart. If I am able to make it I will be guided [as 
ever] by the out going committee or the most lucid speaker.

cheers Tony

Daniel Devine wrote:

> 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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