Questions on EXT3 vs standard BSD partitions

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On Friday 30 June 2006 17:44, Jim Stapleton wrote:
> I have to move between BSD and Linux on one system quite a bit, and I
> was wondering if there  were any reasons to avoid EXT3 on a filesystem
> (such as /dev/ad0s1), as opposed to using the more standard BSD setups
> (such as UFS on /dev/ad0s1a)? I'm thinking mostly in terms of
> reliability, but also in terms of flexibility and speed.

I haven't tried recently, but a year or so ago FreeBSD could not use ext3 as 
such. There is a port that adds ext3 fsck support for syncing the journal, 
FreeBSD can then mount it as ext2. The problem with that is that you then 
have a choice between reliability and decent write speed according to whether 
you mount it  synchronously or asynchronously.

I found that even having an  ext3 transfer partition  that's  mounted by 
default was a bit of a pain, because without a journal or softupdates, 
booting after a crash can take a long time.