Contributed by mk/reverse on from the stuck-on-that-other-os dept.
Fco. Valladolid writes:
Hi, I found this about mounting FFS partitions on windows.
Fco. Valladolid
http://bsdguy.net/
This looks very interesting for those who are forced to dual boot BSD and Windows. Post comments with your test results as they might be useful to people unable to test it themselves.
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By sthen (212.104.129.221) on
By Anonymous Coward (141.156.35.239) on
By mirabile (212.185.103.56) on http://mirbsd.de/
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By Janne Johansson (196.40.43.75) on
By Anonymous Coward (138.88.235.217) on
By Anonymous Coward (24.201.62.155) on
By RC (4.8.17.8) on
Just think about it, now every major OS around, supports FFS/UFS. Linux, BSDs, Mac OSX, Windows, Solaris, etc. Once this Windows driver improves to the point of stable read/write functionality, it would be possible for all removable media to be FFS-formatted.
Microsoft has made it so that you can't format a large (30+GB) disk as FAT32 on their newer OSes (2000/XP), obviously in an effort to force you to use NTFS.
With this FFS driver, all removable hard drives (USB/Firewire) can come formatted as FFS, and work on every OS. Probably even solid-state devices like CompactFlash and SD cards, as they both get bigger, and need a better filesystem (one that doesn't get fragmented, etc).
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By Anonymous Coward (198.175.14.5) on
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By RC (4.8.17.8) on
> to read your media on opposite endian platforms.
It will require a simple workaround, nothing more. Backup tapes had to deal with the problem quite a long time ago.
> FAT will live forever.
Microsoft's attempt to force people to switch everything to NTFS is sure to kill it.
By Anonymous Coward (138.88.235.217) on
By mirabile (212.185.103.56) on http://mirbsd.de/
and in 2.6 they dropped support for it at all.
Heck, the ext2fs support in Windows is so good
and that one in BSD sufficient so that one had
to use ext2fs as data exchange format (if not
FAT) just because these Linux idiots are too
stupid to look over the plate border (hm. should
not translate idioms.) and too busy with their
crappy journalling-added filesystems (except
Reiser, which is good, like 4.4BSD LFS) to hack
on UFS. And msdosfs in BSD is not even good for
an excuse, I had more metadata corruption with
it than with any other filesystem write attempts
except NTFS on Linux.
What the world needs is:
- good ext2fs support in all OSes
- good FAT support in all OSes
- good UFS at least read support in all OSes
- either Reiserfs or 4.4BSD LFS on Linux and BSD
- a _generic_ kernel-userland-fs interface,
common to Linux and BSD, for stuff like
captive-ntfs and gnome-vfs.
.oO(run ffsdrv.sys in captive-ntfs on Linux?)
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By Anonymous Coward (128.36.236.30) on
and in 2.6 they dropped support for it at all.
# pwd
/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-mm1
# grep UFS .config
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set
Looks like its supported to me.
By RC (4.8.17.8) on
Better FAT support in OpenBSD would be nice right now, but it can't hang on too long... It doesn't support huge partitions and has other serious limitations, so it's going to die off in the future.
Linux's UFS support is poor, of course, but surely someone would improve that once UFS gains a little momentum.
Linux FSes in general are not a good option, because they are GPL'd, and a complete rewrite would be necessary before any other OS would include support.
By erm (67.20.44.104) on
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