From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 10 19:22:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA01640 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:22:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from guide.muc.de (guide.muc.de [193.174.4.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA01623 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:22:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alias-moderators-muc-lists-freebsd-questions-owner@moderators.muc.de) Received: (qmail 9061 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 1998 01:35:33 -0000 Delivered-To: alias-moderators-muc-lists-freebsd-questions@moderators.muc.de Received: (qmail 9059 invoked from network); 11 Jan 1998 01:35:32 -0000 Received: from gromit.pinpt.com (205.179.195.7) by guide.muc.de with SMTP; 11 Jan 1998 01:35:32 -0000 Received: from [206.170.30.78] (ppp-206-170-30-78.hywr01.pacbell.net [206.170.30.78]) by gromit.pinpt.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA06614; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 17:35:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801110135.RAA06614@gromit.pinpt.com> Subject: Re: Mac File system and FreeBSD Date: Sat, 10 Jan 98 17:39:47 -0700 x-sender: schluntz@dns.pinpt.com x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v2, June 6, 1997 From: "Sean J. Schluntz" To: "Lutz Albers" , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk *From the fingers of Lutz Albers >[Posted and mailed] > >In article <199801092123.NAA01639@gromit.pinpt.com>, > schluntz@pinpt.com (Sean J. Schluntz) writes: >> I'm getting ready to setup a laptop with FreeBSD and NT on it (I need NT >> for some of the phone work I do) and I also need to be able to work with >> long file names in a shared location for both. >> >> I'm thinking of using a 500meg Mac formatted partition on the hard disk >> as NT will be able to use it (With a tool I have) and I seem to recall >> that FreeBSD can mount it. >> >> My question is this, how reliable is the Mac File system mounting >> capability of FreeBSD? Can it stand up to everyday heavy use or should I >> think of doing something else? > >I'm wouldn't going that route. Maybe you should try using vmount (a >utility which uses the Linux fs code via an nfs loopback mount). Use a >vfat (urgh .. :-( partition for the data. Why? Just curious about the reasoning. -Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz schluntz@pinpt.com Systems Engineer (408) 997-6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation http://www.pinpt.com