Re: [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and filesystems...))

2011-04-28 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 04:13:17PM +0200, dexen deVries wrote: > > funny thing, my current pendrive (which really is nokia n900 phone) has > abundance of powerful hardware -- cpu, ram and 32GB + microSD block storage. > you got me fantasizing. > > 9p served over usb (either directly, as mention

Re: [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and filesystems...))

2011-04-28 Thread dexen deVries
On Thursday 28 of April 2011 16:00:53 Digby Tarvin wrote: > But What I think is really needed for this sort of application is a > filesystem with: > Minimal restrictions of file size (64 bit addresses) > Maximum versatility in FS topology (hard link support etc) > Minimal restrict

Re: [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and filesystems...))

2011-04-28 Thread dexen deVries
On Thursday 28 of April 2011 16:00:53 Digby Tarvin wrote: > > 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. > > Not a bad id

Re: [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and filesystems...))

2011-04-28 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 02:35:56PM +0200, dexen deVries wrote: > 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

Re: [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and

2011-04-28 Thread Richard Miller
> no idea about p9, sorry, but there used to be a r/o ext2 driver. not just r/o - ext2srv(4)

Re: [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and filesystems...))

2011-04-28 Thread dexen deVries
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