no_connection
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With UFS leaving the building it would be nice to have a practical, recoverable, portable and hotpluggable file system for taking backups to or other uses.
Yes it has limitations but the only other format as wildly supported is FAT32 but as that has a bad file size limit it's not an option.
UDF had traditionally been used for CD and DVD but is capable of much more, and as it is supported on almost every OS by default, it is suitable for backup as you can recover it from almost every OS. And it has tool in case the FS gets damaged by time.
As a side note, you could have a USB or eSATA dock next to the nas, plugging in a drive and have it shared automatically through CIFS by ether a config file on the disk or manually in GUI. Leaving you with a practical way to use single disks with hot plug.
ZFS would not be an option for the same abuse.
Not exactly an enterprise request but I can see me using it for home use.
Any merit to this idea?
Yes it has limitations but the only other format as wildly supported is FAT32 but as that has a bad file size limit it's not an option.
UDF had traditionally been used for CD and DVD but is capable of much more, and as it is supported on almost every OS by default, it is suitable for backup as you can recover it from almost every OS. And it has tool in case the FS gets damaged by time.
As a side note, you could have a USB or eSATA dock next to the nas, plugging in a drive and have it shared automatically through CIFS by ether a config file on the disk or manually in GUI. Leaving you with a practical way to use single disks with hot plug.
ZFS would not be an option for the same abuse.
Not exactly an enterprise request but I can see me using it for home use.
Any merit to this idea?