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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:35:56 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] portable filesystem (was: spaces in filenames (and
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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...
>=20
> 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=
=20
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 betw=
een=20
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=
=20
nilfs2, with small auxiliary partition with a virtual machine -- and use th=
e=20
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 gue=
ss=20
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/

=2D-=20
dexen deVries

[[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]]

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3D2308816