Denis Doroshenko wrote: > have you done any analysis of statistical data in order to say so? > otherwise all those "way more popular", "most people" it is a big IYHO.
William Boshuck has the measure of my response to that. > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Matthew Weigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On the other hand, CIFS/NFS network storage devices are cheap, >> and people can use them whether they dual boot, or simply have multiple >> machines on their network. Then too, a lot of people just use boring old >> thumb drives to store data that all their systems can use. > > well with NFS i'd agree, in case there is a robust free NFS implementation > for MS Windows (haven't looked for that myself, as I don't seem to have NFS > storage in my home LAN). I'm not sure exactly what you're saying here... I'm talking about NAS devices that export their filesystem via CIFS and NFS, so that virtually every modern operating system can use it. See, for example, this device: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822111012 > WRT thumb drives, well they still need some FS to be on them, and > fat32 would be a winner (for actual primitiveness thus being supported > by anyone), but there is a serious (these days it is) limitation like > limited maximal size of a file like 2G (must be 2^31-1 perhaps). Actually, (2^32)-1, or 4GB, is the max size per file (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463). I can see that being a problem if you're trying to run a database off of your thumb drive, but otherwise... can you give examples of files that you (or anyone you know) would like to access in Windows and OpenBSD that exceed this limit? -- Matthew Weigel hacker unique & idempot.ent
