From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 1 18:55:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA20292 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 18:55:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA20287 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 18:55:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA02975; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 18:54:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610020154.SAA02975@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? To: ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu (Chris Csanady) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 18:54:38 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199610020106.UAA05994@friley216.res.iastate.edu> from "Chris Csanady" at Oct 1, 96 08:06:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >All in all, for compatability, an NTFS would be a better choice, > >since FreeBSD is currently very Intel specific anyway. > > I think I'd rather we went with JFS rather than NTFS, just on general > principle. :) Or something else entirely perhaps. I was just thinking > that it might be worth it considering that its partially done.. and > perhaps improving upon it.. For what it's worth, there is a read-only NTFS source code for Linux downloadable from a german site. HPFS is at the same site. So they are both at the same level. I don't think people would want to have to mount their disk in an AIX box (considering I haven't written a newfs or fsck or ...). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.