linux/solaris what is best filesystem for sharing

bigearsbilly · 09-06-2006, 04:15 AM

I am installing solaris 10 on my PC. I have mp3 and /home data on a reiser
partition on a disk (not my solaris disk)

From what I've googled and read on these fora, reiser is not good on solaris - so what filesystem would you recommend for
sharing data between linux and solaris (and maybe freebsd)?

I am lazy so would go for the easiest solution

There is no problem shuffling data as the disk is very large with lots of free space to play with.

jlliagre · 09-06-2006, 04:49 AM

If you want read/write support, then FAT is the easiest/simplest solution, as it is supported by all these OSes.
Solaris UFS is supported by Linux, but I'm not sure about write capability (if any) and reliability.

bigearsbilly · 09-06-2006, 04:51 AM

thanks J.

I will give UFS a try
( I will use DOS only as a last resort, yeuk!

)

reddazz · 09-06-2006, 05:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlliagre

If you want read/write support, then FAT is the easiest/simplest solution, as it is supported by all these OSes.
Solaris UFS is supported by Linux, but I'm not sure about write capability (if any) and reliability.

I recently compiled Linux 2.6.18-rc6 and UFS write support is marked as dangerous.

bigearsbilly · 09-06-2006, 05:11 AM

sod it, I hate resorting to DOS.

cheers fellas anyway.

jlliagre · 09-06-2006, 05:30 AM

If you want to be on the bleeding edge, you may also have a look at the porting status of ZFS on both BSD and Linux.

http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/