Want to install FreeBSD - need advice on Writable filesystems?

[samankaya at netscape.net]

 Many thanks for all responses :-)

Sorry for the late reply I was in a Cisco CCNA class for the evening and took a chapter test too - achieved 93% though which is not bad!


 


 
Matt, thanks for the WikiPedia alert I discovered that just before writing to the mailing list taking its advice: "research thoroughly before using a filesystem between OS's"

I however a little disappointed that I cannot use UFS to 'bounce' files between BSD and Solaris. Matt, you also mention ZFS rel 13! Is this teh version that comes with Solaris? We maybe back at square 1 with the UFS BSD/Solaris adaptation again :-(

I guess in my situation really the alternative seems to be backing things up onto external ext3 hard drive and reading that information into BSD..... or using NFS which at the moment isn't the best option as it would be a bit tedious to boot up a VM every time I wanted to swap between Solaris and BSD!

"These days, virtual machines make it much, much easier. " yes that is true if one has the hardware and software to run them. Unfortunately I am on a Pentium IV with only 1GB or RAM which won't even support ZFS file system well, which is why I'm so apprehensive to install ZFS with my Solaris build in the first place and why I revert to the old UFS file system.

Hmm..... the only way maybe just to install Sun's Virual Box with 'virtual' BSD for the transferring of files between the hardware installed BSD and Solaris running NFS server? Ouch!

Not sure if there are any free Hypervisors out there? VMware and Citrix you have to pay for and even Sun's xVM I think too :-(

What do you guys think is my best solution here? Probably what I've already covered right?

Kaya


-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Simerson <matt at corp.spry.com>
To: freebsd-fs at freebsd.org
Sent: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 10:25 pm
Subject: Re: Want to install FreeBSD - need advice on Writable filesystems?










On Jun 1, 2009, at 11:03 AM, samankaya at netscape.net wrote:?
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> Many thanks for the response!?

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> That solves the ext3 fs issue, how about UFS and Solaris as that is > probably more important at this stage??

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> Baring in mind Solaris uses UFS1 while BSD is on UFS2!?
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FreeBSD can format disks with UFS1 or UFS2, but that probably won't help you much.?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_File_System?
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?  "Vendors of some commercial Unix systems, such as SunOS/Solaris, System V Release 4, HP-UX, and Tru64 UNIX, have adopted UFS. Most of them adapted UFS to their own uses, adding proprietary extensions that may not be recognized by other vendors' versions of Unix. Surprisingly, many have continued to use the original block size and data field widths as the original UFS, so some degree of (read) compatibility remains across platforms."?
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Consider instead running FreeBSD 8  (or 7.3, if you can wait) with Solaris, and using a ZFS rel 13 partition as the shared medium between them. Many years ago, when I did wanted a shared data partition between switch booted OS platforms, I used a FAT32 partition. These days, virtual machines make it much, much easier.?
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Matt?

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