On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/27 W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Folks; >>> >>> another migration-related question: I do have a >>> fairly well sized USB >>> drive to hold data so far to share between Linux, >>> Windows and >>> OpenSolaris, thus the lowest common denominator (in >>> terms of file >>> systems) being FAT32. Taken into account I do have >>> also to backup a few >>> VirtualBox images (which are larger than FAT32 >>> allows), I will have to >>> reformat this drive anyhow, so my question: What kind >>> of file system >>> would suit best the need of being written to in Linux >>> _and_ read from in >>> OpenSolaris? (This is just for the migration of >>> config and some data >>> indeed, I'll have to go for FAT32 again after for the >>> Windows situations >>> anyhow...). >>> >>> Comments, anyone? >>> TIA and best regards, >>> Kristian >>> >>> -- >>> Kristian Rink * http://zimmer428.net * >>> http://flickr.com/photos/z428/ >>> jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * icq: 48874445 * fon: ++49 >>> 176 2447 2771 >> >> Can't you format your USB stick in ufs2? I believe most Linux distros can >> read and write ufs partitions. Correct? > > Not the Solaris ufs at last check -- just ufs as seen in older BSDs.
Yes the Linux ufs module does support Solaris ufs: mount -o ufstype=sunx86 I used it regularly in Ubuntu to access data from the Nevada partition. However Ubuntu only enables read-only support. Write support is experimental. Regards, Moinak. > > > -- > Shawn Walker > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
