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Date:      Tue, 13 Jan 1998 06:40:18 +0100
From:      Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de>
To:        "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mac File system and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980113064018.lutz@muc.de>
In-Reply-To: <199801122122.NAA00294@gromit.pinpt.com>

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On 12-Jan-98 Sean J. Schluntz wrote:
> *From the fingers of Lutz Albers
>>>>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?)

My own suggestion on sharing space between different OS's would be a
separate file server (I tried sharing between FreeBSD and OS/2 before).

If that isn't possible, then use the VFAT route, which does support
long file names.

ciao
  lutz

--
Lutz Albers, lutz@muc.de
Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.



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