Can UFS or HFS+ on Linux be trusted?
I know and trust Linux as a server. I have tried it as a workstation a few times and always end up going back to my Macs. I am ready to try it again, but am having a Files System Dilemma. I used a standard ext3 for the OS, but I want to use it to serve my external backup drive to the network, since it is the only non-laptop in the house.
So, is it safe to use UFS as my FS on a backup drive (as in my most prized data)? Would it be better to use HFS+? I really don't want to give up Journaling. I really don't want to give up my ability to connect the drive to my Macs. Please advise. |
Unix File System aka UFS is UNIX native so looks to be the better choice to your *nix systems (yeah, MACOSX is UNIX based).
Don't know about the HFS+ support on linux, but if the deal was Linux it self I could go to ResiserFS or even stay with Ext3 (that the partition type most of my servers run at). |
If you don't mind, I'll jump in on this thread:
When you say "UFS" do you really mean "UFS" or do you mean the "UFS2" that FreeBSD, others? now use? Because I would REALLY like to know to what extent linux supports UFS2 since I would like to be able to share files between a FreeBSD and Linux dual booting system. Also for your situation, potentially you could consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Mac_OS_X If you're using Snow Leapord I know there's a project to make this work on Linux via FUSE, I think it's recently left beta, I have no idea how reliable it is. |
For what it is worth I have used HFS+ to read some CDs formatted in HFS+ instead of the usual iso9660 format. It worked fine. You can check to see if you have HFS and HFS+ installed with this command:
find /lib -iname "*hfs*" ------------------- Steve Stites |
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