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Date:      Fri, 10 May 2002 15:21:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story]
Message-ID:  <20020510151516.J40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
In-Reply-To: <3CDC4611.DD2FA219@mindspring.com>

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On Fri, 10 May 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> "f.johan.beisser" wrote:
>
> > under USB 2.0 that'd work, but you still have the problems of moving it
> > between machines and architectures, i think.
>
> It really, really sucks that FreeBSD doesn't have an architecturally
> (read "byte/word order") neutral local media FS that is not read-only,
> like NetBSD does.

haven't seen that. can you throw a reference over to me about it?

> I hate having to go to ISO 9660 or MSDOS format -- both of which lose
> UNIX semantics -- for common media.

heh. this isn't always a problem. i tend to use FAT32 for some storage
needs - specifically filesystems that need to be used by many different
installations (for example, windows on a dual boot machine). what i wonder
about is how i can keep file attributes (either NT style MAC/ACLs or UNIX
style permissions) between booted OSs, or on transferable media..

> > does FreeBSD already support USB 2.0?
>
> Dunno.  Probably -current does.

not as far as i've been able to tell, sadly. i've got -current on a fairly
modern laptop (toshiba satellite pro 4600), cranking away.. but, untill i
have a machine who's hardware is supporting USB2.0, i guess i won't know.

-------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+
  http://caustic.org/~jan                      jan@caustic.org
    "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse
         of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche


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