Re: file system compatibility...

Veli-Pekka Kestilä <fedora@xxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:56:02 +0300



    On 1.8.2014 23:58, Ed Greshko wrote:

    
      On 08/01/14 23:37, Angelo Moreschini
        wrote:

      
        I need to use an USB Hard Disk as repository; that is a
          "subversion repository" that is used in a local network.
        

        This means (for me) that the data wrote inside the HD can
          be used, in case of emergency, bot on OS Linux both on OS
          Windows ....
        

        Actually in this Hard Disk (that have ntfs file system) are
          stored data 
        writed from OS Windows XP; and I am not able to read
          (easily) this data in OS Fedora.
        

      I apologize for not answer the question you're asking.

      
      However, a friend of my had a similar request not too long ago.  I
      told him not to bother with his idea and to simply go out and get
      a NAS.  He was a bit tight on money but he still went out and got
      a low end Synology NAS with 2x3TB drives.  Final cost was less
      than US$400.

      
      The data is available to all of his devices.  Including his mobile
      devices.  And, of course, he has RAID to minimize loss of data.

      
    With the NAS devices you can get other set of problems. I have for
    example been rescuing data from NAS which had sparc processor and it
    had formatted ext3 in a way that you couldn't read it in Intel
    processor machines without doing extra things and using drivers in
    alpha state (and which development had stopped and you needed to
    compile yourself)

    
    So if going to nas route should check that you can actually get
    something out of the drives in case of box going bad. Or actually
    take backups instead of always planning to do them.

    If you don't mind others (Like your more or less friendly spy
    agencies) to read the code in git repository one way to share the
    stuff with multiple machine is actually keeping the repo in Dropbox
    or something similar which actually copies the data to multiple
    places.

    
    -vpk

    
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