> > > 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. >
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format#Spared_.28RW.29_flavor Vista (but not earlier Windows) can read and write certain versions of UDF (a superset of those Solaris can read and write, apparently). I don't have any personal knowledge of the accuracy of that page... This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
