From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 2 18:45:49 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@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 A90956B5 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2014 18:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x22c.google.com (mail-we0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B4931308 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2014 18:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f172.google.com with SMTP id p61so1401249wes.3 for ; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 10:45:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=X24qKThEwqzK0w/KKlzYFHnxV7uKiUqG4N6baY9VTGo=; b=UMcMgsOMEirRHEJjgugZpbIgR+m/aHhC1eYjEtGQV3sB4LQtI2KkTaQxg4LJSM0f8W 9/DyAjs3z6+T1nwk8Bk2dD0dtsbJs+ROz88d8VkFfaSrc81PDt+rwnxEydLVSsX0Wj6Y CXwPGOVzY74/efai7rZfVaq8HeB+2KjTgQeQ2bBV4dpU6LJYcL776IKJAejmAVdcFio8 bxT+D1ruRIUEOUSpveG+hD5IfxzyRNgVyLtRh8CE8rSukWbGLbqQSlxxRp9d+uo50fl5 2+3kp9HJmD4u7IDS4mSgY+1BZLmORkzIchXuB6WMuaEvf4RqfrwK2e8v/sBFS3KTO94o K/QQ== X-Received: by 10.195.13.234 with SMTP id fb10mr1650314wjd.50.1391366747699; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 10:45:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (4e56702c.skybroadband.com. [78.86.112.44]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id q5sm18357180wia.2.2014.02.02.10.45.46 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 02 Feb 2014 10:45:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 18:45:46 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS(2) portable driver for other OS Message-ID: <20140202184546.1aa51b6f@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20140131150601.53ee40f4.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20140131150601.53ee40f4.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 18:45:49 -0000 On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:06:01 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:41:13 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: > > Hello :-) > > > > Some time ago I have definitely moved from EXT2 to UFS2. This > > greatly improved my speed and stability on FreeBSD, but I somehow > > lost access and portability for other OS in "native" read-write > > mode. > > The lowest common denominator is msdosfs (DOS FAT) which is > usable in r/w nearly everywhere. If you require long file > names, you need the 16 bit version. This is commonly considered > the "typical solution" for the problem you're describing, even > though it doesn't really look any attractive because, as I > said, it's the _lowest_ common denominator where "lowest" is > determined by the inability of "Windows" products to be > willing to accept anything that isn't made, approved, certified > and sold by MICROS~1. :-) In FreeBSD 10 the new fuse ntfs is much better than any previous ntfs support. I use that for multimedia storage these days. So far it's worked just fine on FreeBSD, Windows and my Samsung TV - I don't have Linux but I doubt it's any worse. msdosfs may be more mature, but it's still an accident waiting to happen.