<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>Use any filesystem you want on the Linux side. Share it to other Linux with NFS v4.1. Use Samba to service the winders machines with CIFS. It will be transparent to the users. Let the Linux native filesystem handle the locking between NFS and CIFS requests.</div><div><br></div><div>Note: The XFS filesystem is very stable and mature but lacks the ability to shrink a partition. For most situations, I use XFS. Lustre doesn't support XFS.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to have HA filesystem, I recommend Gluster with Samba. It still uses the ext3,4,XFS,ZFS backend of choice but extends across multiple nodes (servers and/or drives) for redundancy/speed. It can support Samba clients (using samba) and linux clients (using a solid but not super speedy FUSE client). </div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 12:14 -0400, Calvin Harrigan via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Hi all,</pre><pre><br></pre><pre> I've found myself in a situation where I need to share several </pre><pre>large partitions on a single machine across Windows 10 and Linux (ubuntu </pre><pre>18.04)</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>What would be the best filesystem option for sharing read/write access </pre><pre>to these partitions? I thought about using NTFS with ntfs-3g under </pre><pre>linux, but because of the proprietary nature of NTFS, I'm reluctant. </pre><pre>I'm afraid of catastrophic filesystem failure in the event of a driver </pre><pre>error. Is VFAT(fat32) a viable option? It officially has a limit of </pre><pre>32GB, though I know it can go as high as 2TB. It offers no features of </pre><pre>a modern filesystem though. EXT4 doesn't have a practical driver based </pre><pre>solution for windows. There are programs like Ext2Fsd, but I have the </pre><pre>same issues with it as I do with ntfs-3g.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Any suggestions would be appreciated.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Thanks</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Ale mailing list</pre><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org"><pre>Ale@ale.org</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale"><pre>https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</pre></a><pre><br></pre><pre>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</pre><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo"><pre>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</pre></a><pre><br></pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
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