[geeks] Looking for a Filesystem

[Frank Van Damme]

On 8/21/06, Caleb Shay <caleb at webninja.com> wrote:
> On 8/20/06, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm looking for a filesystem.  It needs to satisfy the following
> > requirements:
> >
> > 1.      Read/write under NetBSD.
> > 2.      Read under Windows XP.  Write would be a plus.
> > 3.      Needs to be able to store >4GB files.
> > 4.      Needs to be able to have a fs size >500GB.
>
> I'll give you my solution for a similar problem where s/NetBSD/Linux/g.
>
> I formatted my entire Firewire drive as ext3 (for Linux).  Under
> Windows, I'm running the free VMware Server that starts up a  stripped
> down Linux VM on boot that has the firewire drive mapped as a raw
> device and exports the filesystem via Samba, so Windows sees it is a
> network share, but it is accessing it via the VMware virtual network
> adapter, effectively loopback.
>
> There is no reason that I know of you couldn't do the same thing and
> replace the Linux VM with a NetBSD one.

Waaaaay too complicate imho. For writes from windows and linux, you
could use ext3 and install fs-driver on Windows. It worked pretty well
on the system I tried it on.

-- 
Frank Van Damme