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When storing data on system that has multiple OSes (BeOS-Haiku-Zeta, GNU/Linux, MS Windows and MacOSX or even ...) you have to make some choices and rules in order to continue having benefit from BFS extended file attributes.
Known issues:
BFS drivers do not exists for non-free OSes (baiscly you can not access BFS volums from MS Windows or MacOS X)
extended file attributes get lost with moving data to non BFS volumes
Possible strategies:
packing data from BFS volumes with BeZIP or other archiving program that preserves BFS attributes, then moving these archives to FAT32 or other volumes that are accessible from other OSes (most OSes can work with zipped data without unpacking archive by using on the fly decompression)
** pros: file attributes are kept
** cons: it is not possible to have all data at all times in zipped folders/archives
Solutions:
hacking non-free OSes to be able to extend them to access BFS (?possible)
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