From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 14:45:59 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02667973 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2015 14:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x229.google.com (mail-lb0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7331C1854 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2015 14:45:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f169.google.com with SMTP id p9so19634148lbv.0 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 06:45:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=73KHQkU88OEQ7t6mAE3Wq+RLWFJL5XHf1mz7ORF4/f8=; b=fWEeEhVnfkcAhhTBLElvCPh7hgJ2hglRUWG9rKNYYlUdP/UgFkflkZmx40WomZg+Io 4HMJHun0p3GqVQJcfCOnSSbRCcwhWGjoPVAmBoCXpuuZqEXU/8d8BpDSmdJjhRG2yGpn i5A7HlpbFf/1iyH+v5WT8jj5tklLM54AO3KoQK5UhmJFrZ/TPXGmw2K8QG3K/JmPiI/L TGjGLjwsB5aWwrNXvhqL3EBKRrR0ZUIyBaQXLXpZC69jnXzM0A2YzEV3B2BsrAEjw9S4 9oVa7YCrYHUyvpEcJGoVtki0Bax3EmeqS13eebJWFYREHRYoCClnqRoiwHEaDz+aPY6T cWeQ== X-Received: by 10.152.204.70 with SMTP id kw6mr101304661lac.53.1420555556447; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 06:45:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from lazlar.no-ip.biz (213-64-218-92-no126.business.telia.com. [213.64.218.92]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id mc17sm13555585lbb.1.2015.01.06.06.45.55 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 06 Jan 2015 06:45:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54ABF51A.3030706@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:45:46 +0100 From: Rolf Nielsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon , Lev Subject: Re: Questions from a Linux refugee References: <20150106115503.4870ab2e@jive> <20150106123321.31c89156.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20150106123321.31c89156.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:45:59 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-01-06 12:33, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:55:03 +0100, Lev wrote: >> 1. Lack of ext4 support. As a Linux user, I have lots of disks >> with ext4 partition, and I simply wanted to copy files, but >> failed. I might be naive, but ext4 is open, so why can't FreeBSD >> have native support for ext4? > > Because of the amount of available file systems especially in Linux > (more than 5), having them supported along with the operating > system (!) is not FreeBSD's way to go. Instead you can find support > in 3rd party software: The ports collection contains fuse which > allows you to access many kinds of different file systems. Isn't the issue more about ext4 being GPL licensed than about maintaining support for several filesystems? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUq/UMAAoJEPJMW41Co4JgZvwP/Ax8ZIdWOLbuC1OFz+ccHryR 9j0EJ/CM1+hd6rbNX4TGgHroNyTjt2R6O4Osw+wCHQ+gHtij6ItkFnAj6WXvaHhH OWxoBOL+t0qluY+52YDg+8bMw2eJvX6o8E79U4n0XzXRwsbDa0K2Yxt5vgv6buoI W1QRLXYSIO4Xt80NIOyfe7qC9GqJLz7psM/a76NhcFEo51PXRiPsvuh3rwTj589A 7vUg2WBBoniVOH55wpaaxq1t+nYy31dJYp/+VA4VbN3Avz2t+R4kygp1FSdETMJw +ZLbtKzWyjBoWokJ3YbUtrK22sy7pXpyRrBvXEVYKWmxZin7EaO1t8/z74ILigPR Q0FRf/ptuOwObEdudxyeI+ZGc3yITlpczhC/0FFmboBu+Ue7KlxmUIYyleaEY2mw YD0P2+GxCQ6XWfICmoF33H7gCfIcZW2UDJ8X1n6c1ICg2vyt+QiBWqPqPl+fZPr1 GHvsPyHEPjkquRIJFykaDyPS7skwCrwRYWXeJOeF7197wAIJIbByzIwusbFazxZP MRmYS9NyCeTrjNeCEefm5ijrqZ1Oh18TvG00xg5czwWFNrWR+alXfP6ixyS5n9f7 CfzjCdOo/4s/ZrQnrhxvx2eLhb/C7qyLOTJOcKCRAppuL3S6OKbtWTqdgVn6llwE dsqPP0r6rX4lTlIRuITz =Sg4P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----