GEOM portable filesystem abstraction?

Jesse Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Fri May 21 06:36:19 PDT 2004


Daniel O'Connor wrote:

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> On Fri, 21 May 2004 05:47, Brooks Davis wrote:
>> > I'm surprised that device manufacturers haven't sponsored this kind of
>> > research yet.
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>> Since for most of them, all the word is a windows box except for a few
>> annoying nuts running MacOS or Linux, FAT seems to be good enough for
>> them. :-(
> 
> There is a read only UFS1 driver for Windows XP
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=33782+0+archive/2004/freebsd-fs/20040509.freebsd-fs
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> MacOSX and Linux can read/write UFS1 fine as well.

-------------^^^^^^

Are you sure about that? Everything I've seen on the web indicates that Linux
can barely read UFS1, much less write it. That would be an ideal solution
short term if it's true though.

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