UFS(2) portable driver for other OS

[Ronald Klop]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:53:50 +0100, CeDeROM <cederom at tlen.pl> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at 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.
>
> Hey Polytropon :-) I need large files over 4GB and some existing
> access riight not to be modified so FAT does not apply, also extFAT is
> patented so I wont give it even a try...
>
>
>> The _most universal_ file system isn't even a file system.
>> Instead, it's tar. Yes, really: "tar-formatted" media can
>> (..)
>> It's good for transfer from A to B, but not for adding,
>> changing or removing files...
>
> For archives maybe yes, but I need it as live r/w filesystem, just
> like I used EXT2 - lets say three small OS partitions and one large
> data partition on the workstation :-)
>
>>> I am sure
>>> there is already such solution, as fs standard is open and BSD
>>> licensed, so other OS would surely benefit from that support/driver
>>> :-)
>>
>> No, something like that doesn't exist because nobody cares
>> about interoperability of data. :-)
>
> How about UFS2 driver for other OS? Is UFS2 endianness sensitive? Even
> if, on one machine that would not be the problem :-)
>
> Did anyone implement public UFS2 driver for other OS (Windows, Linux)?
>
> Best regards :-)
> Tomek
>

https://www.google.nl/search?q=ufs2+windows

There are:
  ufs2tools - UFS for Windows
and talk about:
  FFS File System Driver for Windows

Never used it myself.

Maybe NTFS using FUSE is not so bad nowadays.

But the most easy (compatible) and stable solution might be a fileserver  
sharing the data over Samba or NFS.

Ronald.