There is no way to mount Hammer FS or ZFS in OpenBSD as I know. What's the target you want to achieve? To have some data on RAID accessible from both systems? Then you can use FFS or ext2 as both are of course on OpenBSD and Linux can read FFS. Or you can share it over NFS.
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Jean-Francois <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks I will read. > > My problem is that the disks will be available in RAID1 for system to dump > upon, and in case the system itself is not responsive anymore or fails to boot > for a hardware reason, I need the external hard drives to be readable by a > Linux system. But they will be mounted and used in the OpenBSD by default. > > I first wanted to use a file system usable by both OpenBSD and Linux however > it > looks not very much appropriate. ZFS and HFS seems not very easy to mount on > OpenBSD, am I right ? > > I also could not easily use EXT2 with both Linux and OpenBSD, either one can > see and mount not cannot, either the other can do but the first cannot. > > I might end with the FFS for the backup drive in the end. > > Regards > > Le Dimanche 21 FC)vrier 2010 18:23:09, Tomas Bodzar a C)crit : >> Anyway it's quite OT :-) >> >> Here two stories >> >> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2009-02/msg00090.html >> http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/10/10/success-with-opensolaris-zfs-mysql- >> in-production/ >> >> >> We are still talking just about backup/storage. ZFS has a lot of >> features and it's used for about 4 years or so in production. Hammer >> FS don't have so much features and is "stable" for about year. btrfs >> is for those who want to experiment. Some cons - OpenSolaris has >> terrible dev process, but you must use dev if you want update and >> security updates, but there is a lot of bugs in those versions. >> Solaris is not free anymore including security updates after change in >> rules before one week. Support for ZFS in FreeBSD is marked as >> experimental, but it depends. So Hammer FS looks like most promising >> regarding feature on other BSD systems (just my personal tip) >> >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Jean-Francois <[email protected]> > wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Le Dimanche 21 FC)vrier 2010 16:11:20, vous avez C)crit : >> >> For storage/backup you may find much more better Hammer FS or ZFS >> > >> > I can't find out how to make a newfs with HFS or ZFS. Are there any >> > additional packages to install ? > > -- http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
