filesystem compatibility

[Tim Judd]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:37:29 -0600, Tim Judd <tajudd at 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?