From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 23 20:00:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF631065676 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:00:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f105.google.com (mail-qy0-f105.google.com [209.85.221.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D366A8FC23 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:00:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so1491605qyk.3 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:00:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=oJRx2NtryZrBDGFXxgKjAPyu97EUFGANXI9gd1qTLf0=; b=q/pCQtv9gYB7MMCp9q/8l0Sm3AUcqgGYWxjQKWRRGCLZvOZ9useIk+H/Qa0KpJiTNk lyNlKq94Pxm8Whs9DLkpJ2KZQt+A7hzDjWJVSoLc+A6h4fGgNc4sDEsv5jumjmG0QbLc OjkRMFuDSK2KXM3wkYXaTxyVty3y3WXO6HnTk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=i4YcGVFDkLoXkaqL+TLNJK2CGKbbH22GM2tgwvX2YrvOAw2Q/D2dZl5baEYZsr9h3+ KEY05DZSvVlJNq3kBuYMbliUibaRhuZzi2AszUpUoepS+vHJ+W7RlEOouodZAVrCa1qB aV9/zJdMZnmji/Mwtwqts9eb3AXMsNHr9GCx8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.99.201 with SMTP id v9mr2979497vcn.50.1240516820179; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:00:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090423201105.b03f84b4.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <49F09D51.4000906@telenix.org> <20090423201105.b03f84b4.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Tim Judd Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:00:05 -0600 Message-ID: To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Chuck Robey , FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: filesystem compatibility X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:00:21 -0000 On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:37:29 -0600, Tim Judd 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. :-) > Speaking of... Recently I'm seeing a new filesystem, exFAT (apparently to work with excessively large filesystems). Is exFAT compatible with the msdosfs filesystem in BSD?