[geeks] Looking for a Filesystem

[Michael Parson]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 08:53:45PM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Hi geeks.
> 
> I'm looking for a filesystem.  It needs to satisfy the following 
> requirements:
> 
> 1.	Read/write under NetBSD.
> 2.	Read under Windows XP.  Write would be a plus.
> 3.	Needs to be able to store >4GB files.
> 4.	Needs to be able to have a fs size >500GB.
> 
> Any ideas?  This is for an external firewire drive.  Right now I'm using 
> NFS over GigE, but it's *waay* too slow.

Your best bet is probably ext2.

There are ext2 drivers for win32 out there.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org