On Tue 2008-09-23 23:13:32 UTC+0200, Laszlo Nagy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> For making backups I would probably just use FAT32 and tar, because >> practically anything (not just FreeBSD & Linux) will mount FAT32 file >> systems, and tar should respect your file attributes (owner, group, >> creation timestamp, last modified timestamp, etc). > > Except that you cannot create files with >4GB size on FAT32. You might > be able to use an archiver that is able to split archives into smaller > parts. Ah yes, I'd totally forgotten about that, sorry. i would probably split the tarballs in a way similar to how the FreeBSD distribution tarballs are split, but it's not pretty. > This has always been a problem. FreeBSD is open source. So Linux is, but > they do not have a common filesystem that could be accessed from both > system, WITHOUT compromises. :-( Are there compromises with using ext2fs under FreeBSD? Perhaps there should be ufs or ext2fs modules for FUSE, in an ideal world :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"