If I was making the transition you are attempting, I would migrate to FFS. Then, there would be no trouble regarding read/write ability. In my experience, FFS is been stable and reliable. If you are investing in moving to OpenBSD, that would be my recommendation.
On 5/14/17, Kim Blackwood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I am in the process of migrating to OpenBSD on personal usage and in > myoffice as well, but I need some advice. Both at home and in the office > we have several Linux boxes runningSamba. Originally because we had some > Windows machines, but now it'sjust a very convenient and easy way to run > with different shares withdifferent groups and permissions and it's tuned > so it's running veryfast. We also have a bunch of external drives with > EXT4 and some with XFS. Normally I run Arch and Debian and I have no > problem with the abovesetup. However, migrating to OpenBSD on my personal > laptop and desktopI suspect will give me some problems mounting both > Samba shares andexternal drives. We could change the file systems on the > external drives to say EXT2 ifthat's a "good" idea or NTFS if that's > better supported, I don't know.Both read and write access is needed. The > Samba boxes aren't going to change as to many people use those. Iremember > something about sharity-light in the past, but that was notvery good back > then. How do you guys do it? Is it even doable running only OpenBSD on > myboxes in such an environment? Thank you for your time. Kind regards, > Kim >
