Re: Other FS support in OpenBSD

2010-07-12 Thread 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

Re: Other FS support in OpenBSD

2010-07-12 Thread 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

Other FS support in OpenBSD

2010-07-11 Thread 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

2010-07-11 Thread 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

2010-07-11 Thread 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

Re: Other FS support in OpenBSD

2010-07-11 Thread 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.

Re: Other FS support in OpenBSD

2010-07-11 Thread 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