From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 12:27:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 908B11065694 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:27:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christer@csj.no) Received: from smtp244.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp244.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448A58FC19 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay14.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay14.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 640FA22AF81 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:09:11 -0400 (EDT) X-SMTPDoctor-Processed: csmtpprox 2.7.3 Received: from relay14.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay14.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 603BF23A975 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:09:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp192.mex02.mlsrvr.com (unknown [204.232.137.43]) by relay14.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTPS id 595C622AF81 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:09:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from IAD2HUB03.mex02.mlsrvr.com (172.23.10.67) by IAD2HUB02.mex02.mlsrvr.com (172.23.10.66) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.247.2; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:09:08 -0400 Received: from IAD2MBX02.mex02.mlsrvr.com ([169.254.2.132]) by IAD2HUB03.mex02.mlsrvr.com ([169.254.122.106]) with mapi; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:09:08 -0400 From: Christer Solstrand Johannessen To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:09:04 -0400 Thread-Topic: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD? Thread-Index: ActDeyQqYx9iXCYtRq2wD/2NumD1igACY3Ag Message-ID: References: <4c739685.g1aaLUnEPIT1pDne%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> <20100824125442.25f45233.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100824125442.25f45233.freebsd@edvax.de> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:27:32 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon > Sent: 24. august 2010 12:55 > To: Thomas Mueller > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD? >=20 =20 > > Also, Linux and the BSDs go separate ways with some newer file > > systems (ext4fs, btrfs, jfs in Linux; zfs in FreeBSD). >=20 > An option would be to avoid the file system level at all. Maybe > that's > not a solution to your requirements, but let me mention this: In a > interoperability environment, I did use a disk enclosure with > built-in > FTP server. In this way, all OSes can r/w access its content via > FTP. > There are no limits regarding 8.3 filenames. Even MacOS X runs > well > in such a setting. The downside, of course, is that you have to > run > a FTP session for every transfer (instead of just mounting a > disk's > partition), but it's basically no problem to use a kind of "FTP- > backed > file system", I think I have seen this in some KDE or Gnome... I've successfully used CIFS/Samba and NFS between Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows for years. Easy to set up and works well. If there are no Windows clients involved, I'd use NFS or AFS; with Windows in the mix, CIFS/Samba may be a better choice as Windows NFS clients are dodgy at best. - Christer