> On Dec 9, 2007 8:11 PM, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> The next question is how to create a single filesystem on a USB attached
>> device ( like a USB Stick from SanDisk or Kingston etc ) where the
>> filesystem is supported and read/write functional on all of
>> Win32/Win64/Linux and Solaris/UNIX.
>>
>> I don't think that NTFS is worth looking at because it is closed and
>> proprietary. Microsoft could bork that up at a whim without telling
>> anyone.
>> The only two others I see are old world FAT nd FAT32. The FAT type
>> filesystem is too small and restricted for anything real world. That
>> leaves
>> FAT32.
>>
>> Am I missing anything ? Any suggestions ?
>
> Dennis,
>
> As long as your media is less than 32GB FAT32 should be ok.
> Another possibility is UDF. Although last time I check Windows
> considered it to be read-only (that was quite some time ago and
> I am not sure what is the status today)
Thank you Cyril. Long time no hear by the way. I hope that things are well
with you.
I am currently testing with the following OS selections :
(1) Solaris Nevada SNV_78
(2) Windows Vista Business Edition 64-bit
(3) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AS 64-bit
(4) Microsoft Server 2008 32-bit ( Longhorn build 6001 )
I think that UDF is a forward looking and standards compliant filesystem[1]
and thus I wonder if Microsoft supports it at all. I think that the
Microsoft OS may be able to mount the filesystem but only Solaris or
RHEL/CentOS will be able to actually do the mkfs stage. Not sure. I'll
experiment and see how it goes.
Dennis Clarke
[1] n.b.: ZFS works fine on USB devices but we know that Vista/Longhorn will
choke on it. For now anyways.
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