Possible to recreate/format PS3 File System?

[suntzu420]

Hello,

Fairly new to the board, but i've been lurking for a while. I did a search to see if there were any threads addressing this and I didn't seem to come across any. With the recent developments #failoverfl0w have brought to light about the PS3 encryption. Shouldn't it be possible now to create a program that can format external hard drives with the PS3 FS, in the same fashion that has been done with the Wii?

thanks.

[bitsbubba]

Hello,

Fairly new to the board, but i've been lurking for a while. I did a search to see if there were any threads addressing this and I didn't seem to come across any. With the recent developments #failoverfl0w have brought to light about the PS3 encryption. Shouldn't it be possible now to create a program that can format external hard drives with the PS3 FS, in the same fashion that has been done with the Wii?

thanks.

when I had changed my internal HDD, I had put the old HDD (still formatted to PS3 FS) in an external enclosure and the PS3 could not read that structure though USB, I believe we'll have to wait a little longer for that compatibility.

[tthousand]

I read something here at the scene about using "NZHawk's Awesome MountPoint Manager ([RELEASE] NZHawk's Awesome MountPoint Manager v1.1 Beta)", and mounting each game to the internal, then taking it out and putting it in an enclosure .Then being able to play your +4gb games,etc!

But it does seem like the Wii at the first stages. You could not always back up +4gb to the external and play them. Soon, I imagine, we will see more about this. Alot more then the Wii could ever Imagine!

[suntzu420]

when I had changed my internal HDD, I had put the old HDD (still formatted to PS3 FS) in an external enclosure and the PS3 could not read that structure though USB, I believe we'll have to wait a little longer for that compatibility.

Thanks for the reply. I'm curious how the GameOS handles which devices can be seen over USB and which ones can't? I know a regular FAT32 formatted drive can be attached via USB and read fine via the Video/Music/Photo portions of the menu. With that being said, I wonder if the PS3 just only allows FAT32 from external sources and denies everything else? If that was to be the case, would the best solution be a 3rd party Open Source app, or to open that via, if possible, a future custom firmware? Many thanks.