FS

[SuperMiguel]

for my backup drive which file system should i use? ext3 or ufs??

 

[adamk]

Well, considering the native filesystem for FreeBSD is UFS and that ext3 is not support (only ext2), do you really expect someone here to answer ext3?

Adam

 

[fronclynne]

If you are going to be interchanging linux&freebsd-wise, FAT is your simplest&best supported option.

 

[foo_daemon]

Since ext2 is just ext3 without journaling, it's still not a bad option.

I had experienced some severe problems with the ext2fs module in the FreeBSD 6.x era (kernel panics on large file copies), but those issues have been fixed in 7. I presently use a large ext3 partition for most of my files since my machine dual boots FreeBSD/Gentoo.

However, FreeBSD's fileflags (man chflags) will not transfer to ext2/3, so be aware of that.