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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: filesystem compatibility
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:37:29 -0600, Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> wrote:
> MS-DOS FAT32

Ugh. :-)



> Severely limited, but that is as close to as a universal filesystem as you
> can get.

Among BSDs, UFS / FFS should work. To get rid of the many
limitations in the MS-DOS file system, tar is really the
best solution. (I know this from interoperability works
with many different UNIXes, such as BSDs, Solaris, IRIX
and Mac OS X - even Linux can handle it without problems.)
And it is not limited to a subset of media.

I can only say: Avoid MICROS~1 stuff if possible. Not using
it makes you happy afterwards. :-)




-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...