Re: GEOM portable filesystem abstraction?

From: Colin Percival <colin.percival_at_wadham.ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:20:40 +0100 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:54 UTC

At 21:08 20/05/2004, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
>I'd personally take the speed hit gladly if I *knew* that
>I could put a version of FreeBSD's GBDE encrypted filesystem
>on my 32gig 2.5" external USB 2.0/firewire hard disk and
>read/write it successfully under Windows, MacOSX, Linux,
>FreeBSD, etc...

  What you want then, is two different things.  You want to be
able to read/write UFS2 under Windows, OS X, Linux, etc; and
you *also* want to run GEOM on all of the above.
  GEOM is an additional layer; the central issue of filesystem
compatibility remains.

Colin Percival