Re: Sharing data between Debian and NetBSD on the same machine

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> I initially thought about using an exFAT filesystem via FUSE, but as 
> soon as I started rsyncing data from Debian to it, I encountered 
> errors related to long and unusual characters in file names. 
> Additionally, exFAT lacks proper permission support.
>
> Can I use an ext2 filesystem from NetBSD with confidence? Are there 
> any other good alternatives for this use case? 

I follow this discussion. Currently, for this purpose I use FAT on an 
external 1TB drive, I need to share With Linux and NetBSD, but also Mac 
(also 10.5, 10.6) and OpenBSD and sometimes FreeBSD. FAT is Lingua 
Franca, but has a lot of detail issues.
I don't care much for permissions - when I mount I assign them to 
myself, works.

I do not have filename issues, but I have timestamp issues! Some OSs 
store dates in UTC format which is I think wrong, it should be local 
time from my understanding. I don't know exFAT status here.

Also, the 2GB file limit can be one if movies, DVD ISO's are stored. 
Nowadays NTFS is often used, but on certain OSs it is read-only if 
commercial drivers are not used.

I was evaluating exFAT for that purpose: it seems "on paper" well 
supported enough. What you write though scares me. I could try with with 
an USB stick.

Linux has UFS support but I don't know how well it supports FFSv2.
Apparently Apple dropped it too? Time for testing.


Riccardo