Cross Platform Filesystems

[Eric Shubert]

Are you talking about sharing concurrently, or simply using the drive on 
one system at a time? (I was thinking concurrently)

Stephen wrote:
> This keeps poping up, and the only solution is install a a filesystem
> that all your OS's can talk to. Difficulty in this Fat32 is
> technically the only one and even still it is not FOSS.
> 
> however i know there is a windows driver for ext2/3 so you can use
> that as your Filesystem. i do not know about MAC on this regard.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
>> I don't know of a way that you can share devices on a USB connection. If
>> you can, it's news to me (which is entirely possible).
>>
>> I think you'll need a server of some sort which 'owns' the device, and
>> shares it via some mechanism such as ntfs or samba.
>>
>> Eric Cope wrote:
>>> USB 2.0.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net
>>> <mailto:ejs at shubes.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Eric Cope wrote:
>>>      > Hello all,
>>>      > I recently bought a 1TB external hard drive. My plan is to be able to
>>>      > connect it to my Mac, my Windows Machines, my Linux machine and my
>>>      > FreeBSD machine. I searched for a cross platform filesystem and only
>>>      > found FAT32. That does not seem like a good option. Can anyone
>>>     recommend
>>>      > a preferrably journaled filesystem that is cross platform? Or at
>>>     least
>>>      > provide a way for it to be cross platform?
>>>      > Thanks!
>>>      > Eric
>>>      >
>>>
>>>     Which type of connection are you planning to use?
>>>
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