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Date:      Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:56:38 -0800
From:      Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To:        Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>
Subject:   Re: UFS(2) portable driver for other OS
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>wrot=
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> 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 <freebsd@edvax.de> 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.


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Freddie Cash
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