Hello,
I am completly new to the world of FreeBSD. However I use Linux for more than ten years now. I decided to try FreeBSD for some reasons (mainly about network drivers).
I have a computer that runs Linux and that I use for development (3D), doing audio (play and record), and for serving (HTTP/PHP and network share threw Samba for the home network).
I tried FreeBSD this week-end on the same computer and apart how to boot the OS everything went good. The problem arose when I tried to use my Linux partitions under my newly installed OS. Indeed, all my Linux partitions are in XFS. And so I discovered that FreeBSD can only read (in the best, since read might not work or crashed my system depending on the harddrive I tested) this file system. In fact, I was a lot surprised to see that XFS and other common filesystems like EXT4 or even EXT3 are not or only partially supported under FreeBSD.
So my question is simple and might have been asked several times. I would like to know which filesystem do you recommend to do the tasks I wrote above? Also, I would like to make the fewest modifications to what I currently have (so I will keep most XFS partitions, and will move some partitions to the one you recommend). My wish is to have a good filesystem, journalized, with quick access (so maybe not zfs) and that is 100% supported on both Linux and FreeBSD, in both read and write access and journalization support.
I hope your answers will help me find the good solution, my first glance was to move back to EXT2, but this looks so old to me.
Regards.
I am completly new to the world of FreeBSD. However I use Linux for more than ten years now. I decided to try FreeBSD for some reasons (mainly about network drivers).
I have a computer that runs Linux and that I use for development (3D), doing audio (play and record), and for serving (HTTP/PHP and network share threw Samba for the home network).
I tried FreeBSD this week-end on the same computer and apart how to boot the OS everything went good. The problem arose when I tried to use my Linux partitions under my newly installed OS. Indeed, all my Linux partitions are in XFS. And so I discovered that FreeBSD can only read (in the best, since read might not work or crashed my system depending on the harddrive I tested) this file system. In fact, I was a lot surprised to see that XFS and other common filesystems like EXT4 or even EXT3 are not or only partially supported under FreeBSD.
So my question is simple and might have been asked several times. I would like to know which filesystem do you recommend to do the tasks I wrote above? Also, I would like to make the fewest modifications to what I currently have (so I will keep most XFS partitions, and will move some partitions to the one you recommend). My wish is to have a good filesystem, journalized, with quick access (so maybe not zfs) and that is 100% supported on both Linux and FreeBSD, in both read and write access and journalization support.
I hope your answers will help me find the good solution, my first glance was to move back to EXT2, but this looks so old to me.
Regards.