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Reply-To: Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de>
From: Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de>
To: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com>
Subject: Re: Mac File system and FreeBSD
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On 11-Jan-98 Sean J. Schluntz wrote:
> *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.

I don't think that you can mount MacFS partitions, there is just a
program giving access.

ciao
  lutz
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Lutz Albers, lutz@muc.de
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