Ivan Voras wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:35:10AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >>> It might be a good idea to drop msdosfs off of this list. Real physical >>> filesystems in Windoze world are typically NTFS now, and FAT is used >>> mainly in removable storage. >> Not nessisarly - vfat/fat32 is the only reliable FS that can be shared >> between FreeBSD and MS-Windows (and Linux). I use a FAT FS on my laptop >> for just this reason. > > Well, there's another one :) > > I've been running it in that mode (FreeBSD+Linux+Windows) for 2+ years > without problems. No journaling, though.
Sorry, a gremlin ate my link. Here's what I meant: http://www.fs-driver.org/ - it's an ext2 driver for Windows. But I also agree FAT32 is alive and popular choice, no only for stationary drives but also for "semi-stationary" large external USB hard drives and similar equipment - I don't think the time has come to discard FAT32 for local storage. (Many of things discussed in this thread are fairly easy on recent Linuxes with automounting - file systems that have been automounted are probably not permanent).
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