Backing up

[Jordi Carrillo]

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 at collaborativefusion.com>:
>
> In response to Chuck Swiger <cswiger at 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.
>



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