Firewire is a way to attach some resource to the Host. It has almost nothing to do with sharing if I understand your question.
I think that most modern distro's would or could support mounting a filesystem on a drive that has been attached via firewire. This would be similar to any other attachment like usb or sata or scsi.
The next part of your question is the ability to share files. That would come under any number of ways. Some are pretty much distro dependent while others are universal almost.
Ways to share may include setting up file and cifs permissions, file and nfs permissions, setting up ftp server, may include http(s) server or things like iscsi or others.
You might wish to try knoppix 3.x to 5.x versions to start. It should allow you to share it over nfs for sure.
Almost any distro that boots might be made to work.
Last edited by jefro; 04-12-2017 at 09:28 PM.
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