El 13/1/26 a las 11:52, Riccardo Mottola escribió:
Hi,
Ramiro Aceves wrote:
I initially thought about using an exFAT filesystem via FUSE, but as
soon as I started rsyncing data from Debian to it, I encountered
errors related to long and unusual characters in file names.
Additionally, exFAT lacks proper permission support.
Can I use an ext2 filesystem from NetBSD with confidence? Are there
any other good alternatives for this use case?
I follow this discussion. Currently, for this purpose I use FAT on an
external 1TB drive, I need to share With Linux and NetBSD, but also Mac
(also 10.5, 10.6) and OpenBSD and sometimes FreeBSD. FAT is Lingua
Franca, but has a lot of detail issues.
I don't care much for permissions - when I mount I assign them to
myself, works.
Hi Riccardo,
Thanks so much for sharing your experience with FAT.
I do not have filename issues, but I have timestamp issues! Some OSs
store dates in UTC format which is I think wrong, it should be local
time from my understanding. I don't know exFAT status here.
Also, the 2GB file limit can be one if movies, DVD ISO's are stored.
Nowadays NTFS is often used, but on certain OSs it is read-only if
commercial drivers are not used.
I am not a moovies fan but sometimes I record loong audio files, or long
RF I/Q signals captured by the ham radio SDR receiver for further
analysis, that files can easily outpass 2 GB size. So I discard FAT for
now.
I was evaluating exFAT for that purpose: it seems "on paper" well
supported enough. What you write though scares me. I could try with with
an USB stick.
Well, it was a quick test yesterday before going to bed (dissapointing
test). I always give short file names for my documents, avoiding "í",
"á" "ü" and strange characters. But some stored files in my
"/home/ramiro/CRUCIAL_DATA_DIRECTORY" have crazy loooong names. Files of
downloaded music and also files of stored emails from Thunderbird that
have the subject as the file name. Perhaps I should clean that names but
there are something like 1000 files with that issue.
Linux has UFS support but I don't know how well it supports FFSv2.
Apparently Apple dropped it too? Time for testing.
We keep in touch for any discoveries in about this storage sharing issue.
Regards.
Ramiro.
Riccardo
