Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:03:35 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> 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: <3CDC51C7.E465EAB4@mindspring.com> References: <20020510151516.J40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
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"f.johan.beisser" wrote: > > 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? Their FFS "does the right thing" based on the endienness of the "magic number". It was more a grumble than anything else. If you are going to be concerned about portabiltiy of disk images, then be concerned. > > 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.. I tend towards tgz balls on FAT32; it saves the semantics, and the disk space, but is a pain to decode and reencode (requires local storage on top of everything else). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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