Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:26:32 +0100 From: Frank Mitchell <mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> To: sarawgi.aditya@gmail.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Ext2fs & DVD+RW Message-ID: <200904261526.32528.mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk>
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Improved Ext2fs: What a great idea. I like trying different Unix flavours, and Ext2fs is the only filesystem they all understand. I put all my data on a separate Partition formatted Ext2, and every so often I'm glad: Like the recent occasion when the NetBSD Boot Selector altered something and prevented FreeBSD from starting, leaving me with no alternative but to reinstall. Also, under Linux, you can use Ext2fs on DVD+RW. Plain DVD-RW is unsuitable because it uses Superblocks of 16*2048 bytes, but CD-RW should be okay. Currently you can't do this under FreeBSD, probably because CD and DVD use 2048-byte Sectors, and FreeBSD wants 512-byte. Somebody said you can put UFS on DVD+RW, but I couldn't get that to work. So possibly Ext2fs would be a viable alternative to UDF, though I don't know enough about Filesystems myself to tell whether this idea has some enormous drawback. Yours truly: Frank Mitchell ======================================================================== From: Aditya Sarawgi <sarawgi.aditya@gmail.com> I'm Aditya Sarawgi from India. I will be working on FreeBSD's ext2fs as a part of this year's summer of code program. I will be improving the current implementation and I will also rewrite parts of ext2fs under GPL. My mentor is Ulf Lilleengen. For more details you can visit http://wiki.freebsd.org/SOC2009AdityaSarawgi Cheers, Aditya Sarawgi
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