From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 06:36:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA4E16A4CE for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 06:36:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6E943D2D for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 06:36:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRABu-0008L2-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 15:36:03 +0200 Received: from makrothumia.wingnet.net ([206.30.215.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 15:36:02 +0200 Received: from jesse by makrothumia.wingnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 15:36:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:35:59 -0400 Organization: WingNET Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <20040520201759.GB10119@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200405211032.16952.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: makrothumia.wingnet.net User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: GEOM portable filesystem abstraction? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:36:19 -0000 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 21 May 2004 05:47, Brooks Davis wrote: >> > I'm surprised that device manufacturers haven't sponsored this kind of >> > research yet. >> >> Since for most of them, all the word is a windows box except for a few >> annoying nuts running MacOS or Linux, FAT seems to be good enough for >> them. :-( > > There is a read only UFS1 driver for Windows XP > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=33782+0+archive/2004/freebsd-fs/20040509.freebsd-fs > > MacOSX and Linux can read/write UFS1 fine as well. -------------^^^^^^ Are you sure about that? Everything I've seen on the web indicates that Linux can barely read UFS1, much less write it. That would be an ideal solution short term if it's true though. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net