Re: Other FS support in OpenBSD

[Martin Pelikán]

2010/7/12, Paolo Aglialoro paol...@gmail.com:
 Unfortunately the question was meant for a dual boot P3-M 256MB laptop, so

BTW: I can hardly think of a person I know who used XFS on laptop and
didn't lose at least subset of his data there. My suggestion: run,
before it's too late. Ext3fs works for me between Linux, OpenBSD and
Windows (even though I miss fsck, for which I have to use linux
sometimes).

-- 
Martin Pelikan

Re: Other FS support in OpenBSD

[Paolo Aglialoro]

Hi Martin,

I'm afraid we've had some different experiences... power outages plus ext3
sometimes gave me woes (all partition gone), while I've been using both JFS
and XFS on my servers, PCs and laptops without a single glitch. After all,
they are mature industrial standards. Some of these systems are many years
old.

Oh, btw, a rule I always follow is trying to avoid to keep heavy loaded
disks for too much time in a machine, with disk swaps when I feel it's the
right time. Especially in laptops, I always prefer the 5400rpm versus the
7200rpm which go faster but offer smaller mtbf btw, my main 8 yrs laptop
features a disk I changed a couple of yrs ago with ntfs, jfs and xfs
partitions.



2010/7/12 Martin PelikC!n martin.peli...@gmail.com

 2010/7/12, Paolo Aglialoro paol...@gmail.com:
  Unfortunately the question was meant for a dual boot P3-M 256MB laptop,
 so

 BTW: I can hardly think of a person I know who used XFS on laptop and
 didn't lose at least subset of his data there. My suggestion: run,
 before it's too late. Ext3fs works for me between Linux, OpenBSD and
 Windows (even though I miss fsck, for which I have to use linux
 sometimes).

 --
 Martin Pelikan

Other FS support in OpenBSD

[Paolo Aglialoro]

Hi all,

is there some way (fuse or also exotic) to mount JFS or XFS partitions in
OpenBSD, at least ro?
THX

Re: Other FS support in OpenBSD

[Ted Unangst]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Paolo Aglialoro paol...@gmail.com wrote:
 is there some way (fuse or also exotic) to mount JFS or XFS partitions in
 OpenBSD, at least ro?

No.

Re: Other FS support in OpenBSD

[Brynet]

Sure, you have some options.

* Run NFS on a Linux system, XFS/JFS filesystem, export it to clients.
* Use a different filesystem, OpenBSD supports FFS/FFS2, EXT2(..3
without journals), ISO9660, FAT(12/16/32), r/o support of NTFS, and
network filesystems (NFS/AFS/Arla).

Finally,

* Port said filesystem to OpenBSD natively, baring license problems,
create your own implementation.

Does that help? if not, then, nope, sorry.
-Bryan.

Re: Other FS support in OpenBSD

[Robert]

On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:59:11 +0200
Paolo Aglialoro paol...@gmail.com wrote:
 is there some way (fuse or also exotic) to mount JFS or XFS partitions in
 OpenBSD, at least ro?

If you want a *horrible* hack:
Install qemu and your favorite Linux distro, mount it in there and
export it back via NFS.

kind regards,
Robert

Re: Other FS support in OpenBSD

[Paolo Aglialoro]

 If you want a *horrible* hack:
 Install qemu and your favorite Linux distro, mount it in there and
 export it back via NFS.


Unfortunately the question was meant for a dual boot P3-M 256MB laptop, so
no chance to run a decent emulation together with  X and the rest on obsd.
But this idea is for sure stimulating :)

At the very end the only solution to let openbsd interact with linux storage
will be having a fat32/ext2 flash card as exchange space

Thanks Robert and Bryan anyway