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- From: mark@drd.com (Resident.Alien)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: vendor independent file system format for M-O drives
- Message-ID: <34591@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 12:45:20 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- I've been mulling over getting a magneto-optical r/w drive for office
- use on which I would install my home dir and maybe other current
- projects. The idea being that I could eject the media, take it home and
- use it there for work.
-
- My problem is that my UNIX w/s at work is a Sun SS2 and my UNIX w/s at home
- is an H-P 9000/340.
-
- Is there a file-system format I could format such a media to that has a
- liklihood of working across vendor platforms? I know that ISO-9660/Rock
- Ridge was intended to be such a format for CD-ROMs ... is it possible
- (or even desirable) to format M-O/RW media with that format so that it
- can be taken from system to system?
-
- Obviously, at work, I _could_ mount the M-0 on the H-P and NFS mount it
- on my Sun, but I'm wondering if there exists a File System Format,
- traditionally used on hard/fast disks, that is reasonably
- vendor-independent? Should there be?
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