From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 1 18:01:53 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 392B2330 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 18:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm28.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm28.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.212.187]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDFC6115C for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 18:01:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.212.152] by nm28.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Feb 2014 18:01:45 -0000 Received: from [68.142.230.72] by tm9.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Feb 2014 18:01:45 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp229.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Feb 2014 18:01:45 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 222100.82326.bm@smtp229.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: nibYYnMVM1nXanKYPxHJm5TsxOYOY81kK3ZseOjF9dwv66a 2seHRYfl_eBef2RWpzpztmhE4Mn4Saj3oMDAY4pBeuR4gwERZFsyE1XDyD8d N3Q.u9qHaIdivEC8ZsqgyqtF0LUrZOmMO7f9Fo3NXa3jo9O3cPin3GqMnLbl PuOrjkLK0pe2Fuurmt2f7BrTMJfq85CYWqhLvkGxGbt3ih83VhFwmD3xvM6N POkJma8iu63UubPDUL7JVCsQYJ79Qj3urMSo0t1OTTELhvbqoBxju0ooKcNA HifzL_Wu2uoqVatEcp4G6hen5hChiXbHmQO6xK64lgbUTowJB1CGie0OYf6m iUAAKsrxINko4lQZLvJToZwXVUnOFrL4xm.2g4R5L3M7SgOP69NTeyKHdc2u pjHJRP9PBLQ.HdmfgZbVGriXhtrB0KUuA_.CcO2AMPqw6D_te_7AknOXwT7Z jb991hfZEMjdaIW309iPl_TFXJ4FnQAbNq8XvjkBY9Lyw5tEqxO3ffnC7KnY WnN1GARG5oaQXO.ozujiWRtxrFqluEdpsrHSgeDCGdP1QZyddHEiAo7A- X-Yahoo-SMTP: xcjD0guswBAZaPPIbxpWwLcp9Unf X-Rocket-Received: from [192.168.0.102] (pfg@190.157.126.109 with plain [63.250.193.228]) by smtp229.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 01 Feb 2014 18:01:45 +0000 UTC Message-ID: <52ED3688.8030604@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 13:01:44 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CeDeROM Subject: Re: UFS(2) portable driver for other OS References: <52EC5B93.9010709@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Filesystems X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:01:53 -0000 On 01/02/2014 10:32, CeDeROM wrote: > Hello Pedro :-) > > I was thinking about making UFS multiplatform with a BSD licensed code, > still wondering why it has not done yet.. :-) > I am pretty sure such effort has been started a couple of times in the past. Maintaining a portable filesystem is not really an easy task though, and most implementations end up severely limiting the feature set and/or proving to be incapable of keeping up to date with the upstream functionality. Beyond FAT it is difficult to find good multiplatform support for just about any filesystem. As someone already suggested for just exchanging files tar is an option. Pedro.