Re: rsync to ext2 filesystem issues

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026, Ramiro Aceves wrote:

> > There's a 3GB file size limit with the revision 0 format as explained in
> > newfs_ext2fs(8).
>
> ohh, thanks for pointing that! I do not see it in newfs_ext2fs man
> page. That is an important limitation. So I cannot use revision 0. :-(

That should've been 2GB (3GB is a typo).

> > If you want to keep making backups to ext2fs from NetBSD, I would avoid
> > any parallel operations. :(
>
> ok. Sorry for my ignorance, does rsync use parallel operations? If so,
> how to avoid those kind of operations?

No idea--you'll have to read the rsync man-page...

> That's is the important conclusion. Now...thinking again what
> filesystem  I should use for file sharing between Linux and NetBSD...
> (I never imagined how difficult this was going to be....)

Instead of sharing the disk directly, you could attach it to another system
(a home-made NAS in other words) and rsync clients + a rsync server. Then,
you can use the native FS of the OS which is running the server.

-RVP