Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:20:40 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: jesse@wingnet.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM portable filesystem abstraction? Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.1.20040520211727.03a927f8@popserver.sfu.ca> 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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At 21:08 20/05/2004, Jesse Guardiani wrote: >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... What you want then, is two different things. You want to be able to read/write UFS2 under Windows, OS X, Linux, etc; and you *also* want to run GEOM on all of the above. GEOM is an additional layer; the central issue of filesystem compatibility remains. Colin Percival
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