From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 13:23:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA02451 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:23:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gromit.pinpt.com (gromit.pinpt.com [205.179.195.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA02445 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:23:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schluntz@dns.pinpt.com) Received: from [165.227.106.80] (schluntz.pinpt.com [165.227.106.80]) by gromit.pinpt.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA00294; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:22:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801122122.NAA00294@gromit.pinpt.com> Subject: Re: Mac File system and FreeBSD Date: Mon, 12 Jan 98 13:21:13 -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 >>>> 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. Urk, I think you're right. For some reason I though FreeBSD could mount HFS but now that you mention it I can't find where I saw that. So, you mentioned something that sounded painful ;) How would you suggest I make it so that my NT system and my FreeBSD system can share a space with long file names? (People have to have run in to this at some point or another?) Thanks! -Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz schluntz@pinpt.com Systems Engineer (408) 997-6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation http://www.pinpt.com