[iyonix-support] Re: USB hard drive
- From: Alan Adams <alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:23:12 GMT
In message <Marcel-1.53-1116172929-f7fpErr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri 16 Nov, Alan Adams wrote:
>>
> thanks veru informative.
>> Not directly relevant here, but if we start trying out schemes to
>> store all RISC OS allowed characters on a Windows filesystem, we need
>> to make sure that the result will be usable when accessed
>>
>> from Windows
>>>From RISCOS using SMB
>> from RISC OS using NFS
>> from RISC OS using HostFS.
>>
>> Some of these are issues which cause the regular discussions about
>> "notypes", which improves some of these at the expense of others.
>>
>> Using NFS onto a Linux filesystem doesn't have these problems because
>> Linux allows everything which RISC OS does.
> Are you sure?
> The NSLU2 uses linux ext3 format by default but in addition to the problem
> Paul Vigay had with C++ on his, I have heard that part of the RISC OS
> version of Firefox has a file with a rouge character that causes
> problems!
I should have said "I haven't found anything it can't handle."
Hving said that, my VMS background makes me fairly conservative when
naming files.
> Chris Evans
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Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
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