From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 17:41:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3419A37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:41:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF3343FCB for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:41:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown[12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <20030426004151003006dao4e>; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:41:51 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h3Q0fssg054782; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:42:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h3Q0fkCh054779; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:41:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: ".VWV." References: <200304250203.28738.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> <3EA9B589.AAD7A527@mindspring.com> <200304252345.55600.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 25 Apr 2003 17:41:46 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200304252345.55600.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ufs and ext X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:41:53 -0000 ".VWV." 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.