From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 31 17:56:40 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0CAE26A; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:56:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x236.google.com (mail-ob0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B7E14191F; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f182.google.com with SMTP id wm4so5422696obc.27 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:56:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=PCnfFVjaAObNwMlmwsWJ3RkVN5KXCsFA+figboFFWFg=; b=vbSqIGZhuYLWyt4S8RY/lrwWjflsQX0UEWBjkP9REFvO8XNAJhkl97qTvTPy/9l+O2 wuBrEGnkgdiKCIWO6lKu3SbzPVVrdTsB4kzTwjLr+Mdey2vGClECDoCdIK88LmE17HmV iqM5AJDOvC8I1wQz4tKcCVSDqc9XRbfFeTNKuJHSzfj2Vu04J2V54KkMX1u+CILhoo+a X4rJP2PzmwGgfcReaNxT8o1NB32pT5Id7JH/kmtKvG+afy0ySSucsoN9aFxqtGu/+iSY hI8oYraTct5J9amAaN5lfgkiPvlEGAEC3LwZc+NUdxyFJ+0fSd172cAh3meJjZ78D3eI y7qA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.19.132 with SMTP id f4mr17540990obe.14.1391190998948; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:56:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.132.9 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:56:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <52EBE35C.6090905@gmail.com> References: <20140131150601.53ee40f4.freebsd@edvax.de> <52EBE35C.6090905@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:56:38 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: UFS(2) portable driver for other OS From: Freddie Cash To: Volodymyr Kostyrko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: FreeBSD Filesystems , Polytropon , FreeBSD Questions Mailing List , CeDeROM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:56:40 -0000 On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrot= e: > 31.01.2014 19:20, Freddie Cash =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=B2= (=D0=BB=D0=B0): > >> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Polytropon wrote: >> >> On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:41:13 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: >>> >>>> Hello :-) >>>> >>>> Some time ago I have definitely moved from EXT2 to UFS2. This greatly >>>> improved my speed and stability on FreeBSD, but I somehow lost access >>>> and portability for other OS in "native" read-write mode. >>>> >>> >>> The lowest common denominator is msdosfs (DOS FAT) which is >>> usable in r/w nearly everywhere. If you require long file >>> names, you need the 16 bit version. This is commonly considered >>> the "typical solution" for the problem you're describing, even >>> though it doesn't really look any attractive because, as I >>> said, it's the _lowest_ common denominator where "lowest" is >>> determined by the inability of "Windows" products to be >>> willing to accept anything that isn't made, approved, certified >>> and sold by MICROS~1. :-) >>> >> >> >> There's also UDF which doesn't suffer from a lot of the issues the >> FAT16/32/32x does on large-ish devices. FreeBSD, Windows, Linux, MacOSX >> all support read/write to UDF, although it may depend on the OS version >> for >> Windows (I think XP needs a 3rd party driver).=E2=80=8B=E2=80=8B >> > > Waaaaait. This doesn't mean FreeBSD can mount UDF for read/write, doesn't > it? I'd have to re-test it at home, but I'm pretty sure it worked on FreeBSD 9 as well. --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com