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List:       dragonfly-users
Subject:    Re: Dual use Filesystem
From:       Alexander Polakov <polachok () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-03-24 12:58:40
Message-ID: 20110324125840.GB17429 () watashi ! nevacom ! ru
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* Matthias Rampke <matthias.rampke@googlemail.com> [110324 12:39]:
> On Montag, 21. März 2011 at 00:31, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> > ext3 or UFS might be at least readable for each side. However, the
> > lowest-common-denominator of DOS (i.e. FAT) is possibly the most portable.
> From my experience, ext2fs seems to be the most widespread filesystem among the \
> unix-ish systems. beware though, that many of the *BSD drivers can not handle inode \
> sizes larger than 128 byte (the default on linux is now 256 bytes) and most of the \
> extensions (including those enabled by default with mke2fs) are not supported \
> either. 
> As far as I know, only linux supports journaling (i.e. ext3).
> 
> The NetBSD ext2fs driver has recently gained support for large inodes, it may be \
> worth backporting that.

I think we support it since 2009:

http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commit/469327903134dbe076c692e1824d870012bcb5e5


> I haven't tried UFS with DFly and Linux yet, it may be worth a shot too.

Last time I checked UFS write support for linux was considered
experimental.

-- 
Alexander Polakov | plhk.ru


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