Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:45:46 +0100 From: Rolf Nielsen <rmg1970swe@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Lev <leventelist@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions from a Linux refugee Message-ID: <54ABF51A.3030706@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150106123321.31c89156.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20150106115503.4870ab2e@jive> <20150106123321.31c89156.freebsd@edvax.de>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-01-06 12:33, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:55:03 +0100, Lev wrote: >> 1. Lack of ext4 support. As a Linux user, I have lots of disks >> with ext4 partition, and I simply wanted to copy files, but >> failed. I might be naive, but ext4 is open, so why can't FreeBSD >> have native support for ext4? > > Because of the amount of available file systems especially in Linux > (more than 5), having them supported along with the operating > system (!) is not FreeBSD's way to go. Instead you can find support > in 3rd party software: The ports collection contains fuse which > allows you to access many kinds of different file systems. Isn't the issue more about ext4 being GPL licensed than about maintaining support for several filesystems? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUq/UMAAoJEPJMW41Co4JgZvwP/Ax8ZIdWOLbuC1OFz+ccHryR 9j0EJ/CM1+hd6rbNX4TGgHroNyTjt2R6O4Osw+wCHQ+gHtij6ItkFnAj6WXvaHhH OWxoBOL+t0qluY+52YDg+8bMw2eJvX6o8E79U4n0XzXRwsbDa0K2Yxt5vgv6buoI W1QRLXYSIO4Xt80NIOyfe7qC9GqJLz7psM/a76NhcFEo51PXRiPsvuh3rwTj589A 7vUg2WBBoniVOH55wpaaxq1t+nYy31dJYp/+VA4VbN3Avz2t+R4kygp1FSdETMJw +ZLbtKzWyjBoWokJ3YbUtrK22sy7pXpyRrBvXEVYKWmxZin7EaO1t8/z74ILigPR Q0FRf/ptuOwObEdudxyeI+ZGc3yITlpczhC/0FFmboBu+Ue7KlxmUIYyleaEY2mw YD0P2+GxCQ6XWfICmoF33H7gCfIcZW2UDJ8X1n6c1ICg2vyt+QiBWqPqPl+fZPr1 GHvsPyHEPjkquRIJFykaDyPS7skwCrwRYWXeJOeF7197wAIJIbByzIwusbFazxZP MRmYS9NyCeTrjNeCEefm5ijrqZ1Oh18TvG00xg5czwWFNrWR+alXfP6ixyS5n9f7 CfzjCdOo/4s/ZrQnrhxvx2eLhb/C7qyLOTJOcKCRAppuL3S6OKbtWTqdgVn6llwE dsqPP0r6rX4lTlIRuITz =Sg4P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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