On 6 Jun 2009 at 12:11, Donald Allen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Lars Nooden<lars.cura...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can't the legacy system be modified to work with FFS or EXT2? > > Hi -- > > Are you addressing that question to me? If so, I'm really not sure I > understand your question. What do you mean by "the legacy system"? If > so, are you suggesting that perhaps XP can be modified to work with > FFS or ext2? The answer to that, I believe, is "no". While proudly not > a Windows expert, I believe XP supports only Microsoft filesystems -- > ntfs, fat and fat32.
It is common to use the term "legacy system" to refer to proprietary OS including/especially Micro$oft Windows. And since I learned more than I ever cared about Windows XP, it _can_ be made to support much more than what is provided by Microsoft. In particular, there are a few stable and open source drivers to allow XP to access Linux ext2/3 filesystems. There is also a FOSS driver for FFS but it has not been updated in a long time and in my experience did not work too well with OpenBSD. > As I said in my previous post, pscp and another machine present a > simple workaround for this issue. I've got multiple machines, I rsync > my home directory from one to the other when I have occasion to use > something other than my primary machine, and so it's a simple matter > to pscp file from the Windows filesystem to another machine running > OpenBSD or Linux (which I run on my old TP 600x, on which OpenBSD > doesn't fare too well, discussed in an earlier thread). This is needed > very rarely (typically only when I travel and get on the network via > wifi, which I do with Windows, just because it's easier) and so it's > probably not worth bothering to build a kernel to add ntfs support. > > /Don > > > > > > -Lars
