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Author: Stephen
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Subject: Re: Cross Platform Filesystems
I honestly think i would be going with truecrypt after those issues.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:14 AM, GK <> wrote:
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>> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:58:17 -0700
>> From: "Matt Graham" <>
>> Subject: Re: Cross Platform Filesystems
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>> From: Marco Savo <>
>> > So there is a way to share an ext3 filesystem in windows? how?
>>
>> http://www.fs-driver.org/ .  It's only been available for 3 or 4
>> years, so some people might not have heard of it, but it works well.
>>
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> I think someone on another mailing list I'm on recently had the same
> question. M$, Linux, *BSDs and Mac share one file system in common....
> ext2. There are either native drivers in the kernels or apps to help
> read them. Otherwise if you tossed out BSD's FAT16/32 would be the
> "native" FS without any add ons.
>
> For the past 72 hrs I have been rebuilding my laptop. One was a problem
> unrelated to the MAJOR issue I had. Encfs/Fuse took a @%@# on me. I did
> some look ups and about 8 months ago on mostly Debians mailing lists
> there seems to be a reoccuring problem with OpenSSL and AES. Two fixes
> were suggested one was to make sure I was on the same version of Boost
> that generated the xml file. That did not work. The other was ONLY use
> OpenSSL and Blowfish for encryption. I was looking at 500gb of data to
> sort through or possibly could have lost if my backups and rsync with
> the showcruft option for encfsctl  didn't work. I still have the -v
> switch on but my passwd and OpenSSL/Blowfish were used to open my stuff.
> Before using rsync and the backups it was OpenSSL/AES.
>
> I think Truecrypt is in my future for ease of installation and normal
> use in my encryted schemas.
>
> VampirePenguin
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