Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 13:01:44 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> Cc: FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UFS(2) portable driver for other OS Message-ID: <52ED3688.8030604@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFYkXjnJ3tbG%2B6zC-PMn92PrFe8qmRPN-=bPVB1KB5qNUY80eg@mail.gmail.com> References: <52EC5B93.9010709@FreeBSD.org> <CAFYkXjnJ3tbG%2B6zC-PMn92PrFe8qmRPN-=bPVB1KB5qNUY80eg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/02/2014 10:32, CeDeROM wrote: > Hello Pedro :-) > > I was thinking about making UFS multiplatform with a BSD licensed code, > still wondering why it has not done yet.. :-) > I am pretty sure such effort has been started a couple of times in the past. Maintaining a portable filesystem is not really an easy task though, and most implementations end up severely limiting the feature set and/or proving to be incapable of keeping up to date with the upstream functionality. Beyond FAT it is difficult to find good multiplatform support for just about any filesystem. As someone already suggested for just exchanging files tar is an option. Pedro.
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