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Anthony Sorace wrote:
> there's a group called Rosetta that came out of another meeting at the GSoC
> mentor's summit for non-linux OS users (good meeting, although not quite as
> amusing as the "Troll Like a Pro" session). the folks at the meeting all thought
> their biggest problem was lack of driver support, and the Rosetta group is an
> effort to define a way to address that.
>
> they kinda started by re-defining UDI without realizing it, but since have. the
> group was dominated by *bsd folks, but we're not the only oddballs involved.
> we'll see if we can get anything useful out of it. hopefully something more
> manageable than UDI.
>
>

Given that the four BSD's don't even grok each other's disklabels or UFS all
that well, I'll not hold my breath while awaiting miracles...

Given FAT(n)'s limitations, it is a tad ironic that one of the more 'universal'
fs (long name, case-sensitive, and UTF-8 capable) with which to share portable
HDD/flash between and among Mac and all of the other *BSD's is ...

ext2...

:-(

.. and perhaps Fossil?

;-)

Bill