[ale] A good cross-POSIX filesystem or two?

[Dow Hurst]

Try a separate Samba and NFS file server that will serve up your data to 
whichever OS your into at the moment.  You need to VMware!
Dow


Fulton Green wrote:

>Real Soon Now, I'm going to attempt to repartition the hard disk on my
>recently reacquired AMD-based workstation tower. I'm planning to install the
>following operating systems:
>
>Windows XP Professional (refreshing it every 30 days ;-)
>Red Hat Linux 7.3.92 (the latest beta code-named Limbo)
>Debian GNU/Linux unstable branch
>Gentoo
>FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE
>FreeBSD 5.0-DEVELOPMENT (or whatever their branch tag is)
>NetBSD 1.52
>Debian GNU/HURD
>
>So I'm a sucker for punishment. ;-) I'm thinking GRUB is up for the task,
>though (but I am a bit nervous about the HURD install).
>
>Anyway, any suggestions for data partition-sharing? I'm thinking so far:
>
>- one FAT32 data partition for between Windows XP and Red Hat
>- one ??? data partition between the Linuxen and the *BSDs
>- one ??? data partition for file transfers between HURD and the other
>  POSIXen
>
>I wasn't sure, for example, if even FreeBSD could do ext3, or if I should
>just go for UFS for the second partition. I also didn't know what would be
>the best (i.e., least corruptible) FS for HURD.
>
>TIA.
>
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