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Date:      25 Apr 2003 17:41:46 -0700
From:      swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        ".VWV." <victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ufs and ext
Message-ID:  <eeadee9jjp.dee@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <200304252345.55600.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it>
References:  <200304250203.28738.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> <3EA9B589.AAD7A527@mindspring.com> <200304252345.55600.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it>

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".VWV." <victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> writes:

> > > I have noticed both BSD and Linux pre-compiled kernels cannot mount
> > > read-write the other filesystem. It's a shame that a newbie could think
> > > one is able to read, the other one is able to write. We know ufs was born
> > > before ext. Some Linux distributions has also adopted ReiserFS on Linux,
> > > that's really a not-unix filesystem. Why at PASC nobody has declared
> > > what's the best standard?

There is one pretty-good almost-filesystem standard which I've used
successfully, namely "tar".  You can write and read a tarball on an
otherwise-unused partition (ie, raw device, no real filesystem) from
multiple types of OSes.



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