On Montag, 21. März 2011 at 00:31, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > ext3 or UFS might be at least readable for each side. However, the > lowest-common-denominator of DOS (i.e. FAT) is possibly the most portable. >From my experience, ext2fs seems to be the most widespread filesystem among >the unix-ish systems. beware though, that many of the *BSD drivers can not >handle inode sizes larger than 128 byte (the default on linux is now 256 >bytes) and most of the extensions (including those enabled by default with >mke2fs) are not supported either.
As far as I know, only linux supports journaling (i.e. ext3). The NetBSD ext2fs driver has recently gained support for large inodes, it may be worth backporting that. Last time I tried the ext2 tools (from pkgsrc) did not work on DragonFly because they could not determine the size of the devices. It may be worth porting them too (because without journaling the filesystem won't mount R/W after an unclean shutdown and will need to be fsck'ed). I haven't tried UFS with DFly and Linux yet, it may be worth a shot too. msdosfs works too, of course, but it is very limited. Regards, Matthias
