Is BFS suited for portable hard drive?

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is BFS suited for portable hard drive?

i heard F2FS be best for it.

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Sure, but only Haiku will be able to use it. If you’re going to plug this into all kinds of computers, use FAT32.

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Linux can at least read bfs

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I’m aware, though I’m not sure this has propagated to every one of the 2 kazillion distros out there :grinning:.

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I was about to suggest ntfs or (ex)fat which are supported widely by devices like tv sets and even stranger things. But looking at what f2fs is, I’m wondering if @Ilovehotdog was not thinking of a hard drive for a mobile. That would disqualify completely bfs.

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Yes.I have my Haiku media server video files on them. Used Linux for R/W as well.

Note: Be aware there is no Norton Disk Doctor for BFS - yet. Checkfs (and “bfs tools” can help in some situations - but not foolproof). You’ll want to have tools to backup and recover your data - so pick a supported filesystem from that baseline.

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I Saw these information.

“It isn’t long before you come to your next big
choice: the filesystem. CachyOs
recommends Btrfs as the default, but EXT4 is another fine choice, albeit far from your only option. You can also choose from XFS, ZFS, or the even more specialized F2FS or “Flash-Friendly File System, " which is only really useful if you’re installing CachyOS on a USB drive, for example.”

well, if i want to install haiku on a Usb drive with bfs, do it work well?

or

is bfs “Flash-Friendly File System" ?

f2FS can get 48M/s speed (random write with UsB drive) (ext4 only get 15M/s).

what’s the bfs＇s speed?

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If you want to install Haiku,BFS is your only choice.
BFS is Haikus native file system and Haiku depends on some of its special features like the attributes to work.
You can use some other file systems to exchange data with Haiku (like Fat32 or Ext4) but you can’t use it as boot drive.
That being said,BFS works fine on USB drives.
I don’t know any specific speed,that also depends on your specific drive,but booting Haiku from an USB stick is usually faster than booting Linux that way.

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BFS is a pretty good file system from my understanding anyways why would you want to choose something else

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I use two external hard drives formatted to BFS that act as go between my Zeta OS PCs and my Haiku PCs. Moreover, one dedicated for archives and backups for both platforms. I use RSync to manage to backup maintenance from PCs to archive drives.

Otherwise I will use Fat32 to go between my other platforms.

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BFS is not designed to take advantage of the nature of flash storage. Flash storage didn’t really even exist in a useful way in the late 90s/early 2000s. It’ll work and will be not worse than most other file systems of that era, but it is not APFS or whatever, designed to work well on Flash based storage.

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So, what is BeOs FS good for?

  1. If you use only HAIKU?

  2. If you use Windows and HAIKU?

  3. Mostly all attributes get lost if you use BeFS with Windows, isn’t it?