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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!stern.fokus.gmd.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: Share partition between Linux and FreeBSD ? Date: 10 Oct 1995 23:01:15 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <45eqfb$5hh@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <NEWTNews.813260805.14773.jalvarez@sundev.uno.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:7304 comp.os.linux.setup:24337 <jalvarez@uno.com> wrote: >We added a FreeBSD partition to a Linux system we use for development. >It looks like we will have to add an additional hard disk for our sources >and other files. Can Linux and FreeBSD share a user partition (e.g. not a >root or swap partition) ? If so, what would be the best filesystem type to (swap would not be very hard to do, and perhaps you even wanna do it. It requires some tweaking inside /etc/rc, so each of the system will lay its hands on the swap when coming up.) >implement this (e.g. mpunt a Linux partition from FreeBSD or a FreeBSD >partition from Linux) ? Are there any performance problems in doing this ? Currently, only "msdos" f/s partitions can be shared. The performance problems are quite obvious. :) John Dyson has been working on an ext2fs implementation for FreeBSD. Not sure about the current state of affairs however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)