From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 10 16: 4:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B190037B400 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 16:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.247.140.188.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.140.188] helo=mindspring.com) by goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 176JQm-00010M-00; Fri, 10 May 2002 16:04:08 -0700 Message-ID: <3CDC51C7.E465EAB4@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:03:35 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "f.johan.beisser" Cc: Chip Morton , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] References: <20020510151516.J40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "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