On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/6/27 Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> 2008/6/27 W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>>> Folks; > >>>> > >>>> another migration-related question: I do have a > >>>> fairly well sized USB > >>>> drive to hold data so far to share between Linux, > >>>> Windows and > >>>> OpenSolaris, thus the lowest common denominator (in > >>>> terms of file > >>>> systems) being FAT32. Taken into account I do have > >>>> also to backup a few > >>>> VirtualBox images (which are larger than FAT32 > >>>> allows), I will have to > >>>> reformat this drive anyhow, so my question: What kind > >>>> of file system > >>>> would suit best the need of being written to in Linux > >>>> _and_ read from in > >>>> OpenSolaris? (This is just for the migration of > >>>> config and some data > >>>> indeed, I'll have to go for FAT32 again after for the > >>>> Windows situations > >>>> anyhow...). > >>>> > >>>> Comments, anyone? > >>>> TIA and best regards, > >>>> Kristian > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Kristian Rink * http://zimmer428.net * > >>>> http://flickr.com/photos/z428/ > >>>> jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * icq: 48874445 * fon: ++49 > >>>> 176 2447 2771 > >>> > >>> Can't you format your USB stick in ufs2? I believe most Linux distros > can read and write ufs partitions. Correct? > >> > >> Not the Solaris ufs at last check -- just ufs as seen in older BSDs. > > > > Yes the Linux ufs module does support Solaris ufs: mount -o > ufstype=sunx86 > > I used it regularly in Ubuntu to access data from the Nevada partition. > > However Ubuntu only enables read-only support. Write support is > experimental. > > Maybe it's ufs2 I'm thinking of... > > Thanks for the note Moinak. > > -- > Shawn Walker > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > Hi, I thought I'd add my 2c worth here :-) I am having much success using ZFS in a shared pool, using zfs-fuse under Linux - I have described the process on my blog. The same pool is mounted when I boot in Nevada or Ubuntu. This does not support your MS Windows requirement though. I'd say NTFS best suits your requirements for writing from Linux, readable from Windows and Solaris, and supporting large files, though getting the NTFS file mounted under Solaris may not be trivial. A google search finds many blog entries, etc so I'm sure this can be done. For a once off transfer from Linux to Solaris, I agree that using a hard drive in RAW mode might be the simplest. However I would use cpio rather than tar: To create the backup from Linux, do find /export/home -depth | cpio -o > /dev/sdb1 To restore from this backup, under Solaris cd /export/home; cpio -idm /dev/dsk/c2d0p1 Where c2d0p1 and sdb1 in the commands above must be replaced with whatever is relevant on your system. Cheers, _J -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Afrikaanse Stap Website: http://www.bloukous.co.za My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com ICQ = 193944626 YahooIM = johan_hartzenberg GoogleTalk = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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