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Subject: Re: GEOM portable filesystem abstraction?
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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