On Tuesday 05 September 2006 11:13, Igor Sobrado wrote: > Hello! > > I am trying to understand an odd behaviour in the Berkeley Fast File > System as implemented in both NetBSD and OpenBSD. My main concern > is not getting a workaround for this problem (hopefully, I found one) > but understanding if there are hidden issues than can damage files > stored in these shared filesystems in the future. > > The scenario is the next one: I have three USB flash memory drives > and an external USB HDD (a Plextor PX-PH08U). I want to make ffs > filesystems on at least two of the flash memory drives and the HDD > to share data between my laptop (running NetBSD) and three computers > (running OpenBSD). These machines are running the latest stable > releases of NetBSD and OpenBSD. All software is relatively updated > (but I am not tracking -stable in either NetBSD or OpenBSD).
https://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115007748827114&w=2 Conclusion from that thread seems to be that sharing FFS partitions between BSDs is a Bad Idea. Maybe you should consider using for example ext2 partition? I have that to share data between all 3 major families of systems ;) <cut information I can't comment on> -- viq
