From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 31 17:20:39 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D6FD68A; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-x231.google.com (mail-oa0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06437159C; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:20:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id i7so5465792oag.22 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:20:38 -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=dduCv0WQQWnnDAIK0dAeq753ajmJE/SgCs/vIGSbrIw=; b=Gsn6LuH8GJ34BBJRY8+3LOEj0/MFFCi8gm6MMYPjo4uz38fPCmvbFnIjxA341GYa/C Mgi+NNGc5hKuwZ7s7lRzrlqGfpBnkEFEonrHfDUAbgnITcTluCS2+h1zV0Rb/TZWxvhK +leP+TgefybU6Z9JoGtPxrfJ9+OLx1NtQzEX+ZVD8j4zJoHDygumvk1O9MOycnaInUXH MxGG3oCsPN0KhjycmvTwXta+yhR1g+GLdlwLzmIrLNTylfhgruSP2v0avmRDAyZDbke7 mUlwqLch9UGJ3Ycc8FzcizthJ1ZJLG6Nt6qjhhxtrltbNjLmZwQKdKiUDLfvFHQMWbCr G0KA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.18.102 with SMTP id v6mr1557707obd.71.1391188838278; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.132.9 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:20:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20140131150601.53ee40f4.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20140131150601.53ee40f4.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:20:38 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: UFS(2) portable driver for other OS From: Freddie Cash To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: FreeBSD Filesystems , FreeBSD Questions Mailing List , CeDeROM X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:20:39 -0000 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 I've used UDF successfully on USB drives, although I don't think you can boot off it. --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com