Darwin UFS Support?
Peter Grehan
grehan at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 15 14:04:11 PST 2004
> Fat32
> The classic "cross platform" format, unless MS goes patent crazy. 5.x
> has reportedly imported Apple APSL code for improved functionality. Best
> bet?
I'd say so.
> Ext2
> Mac drivers are at sourceforge and are reportedly stable. FreeBSD side
> would probably need sparse superblocks turned off as per Michael Lucas'
> "compat_linux the Hard Way" at onlamp (point compat_linux at a real RH
> install).
I've not tried that one, but it could be an option.
> It sounds like Darwin UFS may never sync with FreeBSD because of the
> work that would be involved.
The other issue with UFS is that FreeBSD uses the endian of the host
system, so you can't share a UFS volume between FreeBSD/PPC
and FreeBSD/x86.
later,
Peter.
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