Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:00:05 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: filesystem compatibility Message-ID: <ade45ae90904231300l5b3e5420v1a7575731fcbf222@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090423201105.b03f84b4.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <49F09D51.4000906@telenix.org> <ade45ae90904231037i6958ef21u7b70e8e4dac249bd@mail.gmail.com> <20090423201105.b03f84b4.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:37:29 -0600, Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> wrote: > > MS-DOS FAT32 > > Ugh. :-) > > > > > Severely limited, but that is as close to as a universal filesystem as > you > > can get. > > Among BSDs, UFS / FFS should work. To get rid of the many > limitations in the MS-DOS file system, tar is really the > best solution. (I know this from interoperability works > with many different UNIXes, such as BSDs, Solaris, IRIX > and Mac OS X - even Linux can handle it without problems.) > And it is not limited to a subset of media. > > I can only say: Avoid MICROS~1 stuff if possible. Not using > it makes you happy afterwards. :-) > Speaking of... Recently I'm seeing a new filesystem, exFAT (apparently to work with excessively large filesystems). Is exFAT compatible with the msdosfs filesystem in BSD?
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