UFS(2) portable driver for other OS

[Freddie Cash]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:06 AM, 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. 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).​​

I've used UDF successfully on USB drives, although I don't think you can
boot off it.

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Freddie Cash
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