Hi,
After purchasing a USB to IDE/SATA drive caddy to allow system backups, my
attempt was to use a 120GB IDE drive that came out of an old PC. While changing
the partition information with fdisk was straight forward, newfs'ing the disk
was more of a problem as you had to enter the number of
As ZFS does not have the limits of FAT/FAT32 and is also open source, could
it be proposed to the makers of digitial devices like camera, usb memory
manufacturers, router manufacturers, etc as a way of eliminating the FAT
licensing yoke. This of course would require drivers to be available for
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:19 PM, casper@sun.com wrote:
As ZFS does not have the limits of FAT/FAT32 and is also open source, could
it be proposed to the makers of digitial devices like camera, usb memory
manufacturers, router manufacturers, etc as a way of eliminating the FAT
licensing
Hi Casper,
Thanks for the reply.
It would nice to have an Open Source file system format which could be
used by these electronic devices which did not require FAT.
casper@sun.com wrote:
As ZFS does not have the limits of FAT/FAT32 and is also open source, could
it be proposed to the
casper@sun.com wrote:
There are many reasons why this doesn't fly:
- First of all you will need to build away to easily, automatically
import and export removable ZFS pools
- Installed base (windows, USB, cameras)
- pcfs uses about 1/10 of the code needed for
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Paul Gress pgr...@optonline.net wrote:
casper@sun.com wrote:
There are many reasons why this doesn't fly:
- First of all you will need to build away to easily, automatically
import and export removable ZFS pools
- Installed base (windows,
