From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 21 11:03:26 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85C33DBD for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:03:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 442E81039 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:03:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-149-155.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.149.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F06A3CEFC; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:03:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s0LB2qSo003777; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:02:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:02:52 +0100 From: Polytropon To: krad Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux shared installation Message-Id: <20140121120252.442c19cf.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20140121172736.A25136@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20140121193035.K25136@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:03:26 -0000 On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:31:52 +0000, krad wrote: > if you want data exchange, you might be better going for nfs or cifs rather > than trying to keep it on disk. All of the issues with fs support then go > away, and you can keep each os install atomic If I would need this for larger amounts of data, NFS would definitely be my choice. I already _know_ that it works because I have tried it in the past. But the requirement is "network-less", and only for small amounts of data, just in case I want to access something from all installed operating systems, or want something created on one OS make accessible on the other OS. It's not even about a shared home directory. Also it's not about simultaneous access, because only one OS will run at a time. The primary intention is that it should be r/w from all systems with the simplest means possible. I'm not sure in how far Linux supports UFS (either as a partition inside a slice, or as a GPT partition, or as a "slice on its own"), that's why I thought the best choice would be the lowest Linux file system (ext2), because FreeBSD can read and write this with OS tools (fuse not required). So the "means of sharing or transfer" can be kept on the same disk (installed in the laptop) and does not require something specific. It's really not meant for big amounts of data, it's a "just in case" concept. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...