[geeks] HD/IDE question

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Sep 26 09:23:45 CDT 2006


velociraptor wrote:
> So, the next question: recommendations for a file system which is
> readable and writeable by all the major OSes? E.g. OS X, Solaris,
> Linux, *BSD, Windows XP?  Ext2/3 appears to be the only choice for
> support of files >2GB.  I'd be interested to hear other suggestions
> and/or anyone's experiences using the tools for ext2 under non-Linux
> OSes.

I agree that ext2 appears to be the only choice.  I haven't tried it 
under Windows yet, but it works fine under NetBSD.

Peace...  Sridhar



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