Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:16:54 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM portable filesystem abstraction? Message-ID: <20040520201654.GA10119@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <c8j37u$12s$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <c8iu9o$jd9$1@sea.gmane.org> <35264.1085082037@critter.freebsd.dk> <c8j37u$12s$1@sea.gmane.org>
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--oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:08:29PM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that anyone should > write another abstraction layer and then port UFS to it > and force everyone to use this slower version of the UFS > filesystem by default. I'm simply suggesting that it might > be useful (for things like portable devices or dual boot > machines) to be capable of using a slightly slower filesystem > that can be compiled as a loadable kernel module on multiple > architectures and operating systems. > > I'd personally take the speed hit gladly if I *knew* that > I could put a version of FreeBSD's GBDE encrypted filesystem > on my 32gig 2.5" external USB 2.0/firewire hard disk and > read/write it successfully under Windows, MacOSX, Linux, > FreeBSD, etc... >=20 > FAT32 does this already, but without the encryption, and > without the reliability, scalability, speed, or durability > of a real modern filesystem. I can't even really fsck FAT32 > from FreeBSD, much less defrag it. If we had HFS+ in the base it would do most of that other then the encryption which would require a port of GBDE (though porting all of GEOM isn't the only way to do that). I've got a friend who uses HFS+ as his PC/Mac compatability FS because it sucks less then FAT and there are decent third party drivers for Windows. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFArRI1XY6L6fI4GtQRAudXAKC10H9lzE9K9SV3z9Mh842paOgJEACgzDBN U0pkBZW0yk258St2OS5Uiv4= =hPlr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI--
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