Date: Sat, 10 Jan 98 17:39:47 -0700 From: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com> To: "Lutz Albers" <lutz@muc.de>, <muc-lists-freebsd-questions@moderators.muc.de> Subject: Re: Mac File system and FreeBSD Message-ID: <199801110135.RAA06614@gromit.pinpt.com>
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*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. Why? Just curious about the reasoning. -Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz schluntz@pinpt.com Systems Engineer (408) 997-6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation http://www.pinpt.com
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