From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 17:59:21 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 EC7FE37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from community4.interfree.it (community4.interfree.it [213.158.72.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AFA7B43FE0 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:59:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it) Received: (qmail 29920 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2003 00:59:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO linux) (80.104.111.207) by mail.interfree.it with SMTP; 26 Apr 2003 00:59:20 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: ".VWV." To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 01:59:41 -0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200304250203.28738.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> <200304252345.55600.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200304260159.41548.victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> 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 00:59:22 -0000 On Friday 25 April 2003 23:41, you wrote: > ".VWV." writes: > > > > I have noticed both BSD and Linux pre-compiled kernels cannot mou= nt > > > > 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 kno= w > > > > ufs was born before ext. Some Linux distributions has also adopte= d > > > > ReiserFS on Linux, that's really a not-unix filesystem. Why at PA= SC > > > > 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. Since the tapes' era, 'tar' is really the only common resource. =2EVWV.