On Thursday 28 of April 2011 14:11:27 Digby Tarvin wrote: > On a slightly related topics, one of my constant headaches lately > is the problem of deciding what filesystem to put on large capacity > removeable storage to give me maximum interoperability... > > What I really want is somthing that I can copy files to and from > from any of my OSs without losing meta-data.
ext2/ext3 seems to work between windows and linux for free [1], and macos x with some payment [2] or perhaps for free via FUSE. surprisingly, you can even use LUKS [3] with it and it still works r/w between windows and linux. no idea about p9, sorry, but there used to be a r/o ext2 driver. you can freely convert filesystem between ext2 and ext3 mode on linux. at some point i had that crazy idea to have a pendrive formatted in ext3 or nilfs2, with small auxiliary partition with a virtual machine -- and use the virtual machine as a filesystem server when on hostile OS. personally, i'd love to have nilfs2 [4] ported to p9 and windows; but i guess it's matter of future. [1] http://www.ext2fsd.com/ [2] (lost the link, sorry) [3] http://www.freeotfe.org/ on windows, cryptsetup on linux [4] http://www.nilfs.org/ -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] ``In other news, STFU and hack.'' mahmud, in response to Erann Gat's ``How I lost my faith in Lisp'' http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2308816
