Solaris / Linux Common Filesystem ??

[DamianDelCampo]

Hi, I have a PC setup to run both Solaris and Linux in a dual boot situation, which I've done for training and education purposes mainly..
Predominantl I would run Solaris but occassionally would like to boot into Linux for various tasks.

I want to have a "non system" storage drive that is accessible via nfs to the rest of my network regardless of operating system I'm using, ie the filesystem needs to be read/write from Solaris and Linux and I would share out with identical configurations so that other PCs on my network will not see a change in usage whether these files were being served via Solaris or Linux by both nfs & samba.

I've only been able to find
ext2 support for Solaris
read only support for ufs in Linux

I really like to use an ext3 or xfs file system for this task but this obviously requires Solaris support which is where I'm running into a wall.


Does anybody know of an Solaris support for the above mentioned widely used file systems, I don't want to have to end up using fat or ext2 for this filesystem.


Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Damian

 

[daFranze]

check this please

http://forum.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=10&thread=20197&tstart=45&trange=15

Veritas Filesystem vxfs is btw. the only solution I know, too.

Best Regards, Franz
--
Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[Clairvoyant1332]

Have you tried using FAT32?

 

[Clairvoyant1332]

Both Solaris x86 and Linux need to be able to read them if they're coexisting with a Windows system.

It may not be a Unix or Linux filesystem, but if both can access it in read/write mode, it should do the job.

 

[DamianDelCampo]

Thanks for the comments, I have avoided using FAT32 for a number of reasons.
1) The main reason being that I recall FAT32 was not a recomended file system to use for NFS.
2) Disk usage / performance wise I thought FAT32 was a worst possible option.

At this stage I think I'm gonna go with UFS as the pc will mainly be used for Solaris. I will just server the files "read only" for the brief periods I am playing around the pc as a Linux server.

I just thought I must be missing something, presumed given Solaris' market share of the posix world, there would be an ext3 or xfs port/patch so Solaris users could choose from more popular filesystems.


It would seem in terms of depth, Solaris has the same support for different file systems as good old Windows !!!



Thanks again for the advice. Damian

 

[OlFart]

I've been thinking of adding Solaris to my Athlon64 box. Is is difficult to setup? How do I add it to GRUB? Does it have to be on the MASTER drive O rcan I use my SLAVE drive? This info would be good to have before I download Solaris 10.

Thanks
Aubrey