<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Sep 10, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Rick Green <<a href="mailto:rtgreen@chartermi.net">rtgreen@chartermi.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">1) I'm setting up an external hard drive that I'll use for audio files. It <br>needs to be mountable and writable on both Linux and Mac OSX systems. What <br>filesystem would I select to optimize reliability and I/O thruput on both of <br>these systems?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here are the options I know about.</div><div><br></div><div>1) NTFS with FUSE on both sides</div><div>2) ext with Paragon’s commercial ext driver for macos (FUSE ext options don’t look great).</div><div><div>3) FAT32 or exFAT</div></div><div>4) ZFS</div><div><br></div><div>I haven’t used the paragon ext driver. If it works well it is likely the best option. </div><div><br></div><div>NTFS will probably work OK.</div><div><br></div><div>If you do FAT32 note that with a larger cluster size you can have semi-reasonable sized partitiions, 32GB I think. The defaults, which windows will give you, give a max 2GB I think.</div><div><br></div><div><div>zfsonlinux works well in my limited experience. </div></div><div><br></div><div>I can’t speak to the stability of the mac ZFS options. This one looks reasonable: <a href="http://open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFSOnOSX">http://open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFSOnOSX</a></div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, put everything on linux, have linux dual-boot on bare hardware and as a VM on MacOS. </div><div>Have linux share out its native home partition via NFS. Not sure how reasonable this is - e.g., can you </div><div>get a VM running pre-login? </div><div><br></div><div>Warning, macos filesystems are case-insensitive by default. I had trouble when i </div><div>formatted an HFS+ filesystem as case-sensitive, some software just broke. So NTFS might</div><div>be a better fit. </div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite">2) I'd like to set up a multi-boot system, with each OS mounting the same <br>volume for my home directory. I have problems, however, with application <br>configuration files getting corrupted from a different version of the same. Is <br>there some way I can set up a filesystem so that all of the 'dot' files in my <br>home directory are stored on the OS boot drive, and all the 'regular' files are <br>on my separate home drive, mounted as an 'overlay', so that as a user I see all <br>of them appearing to be in one home directory?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><br>-- <br>Rick Green<br><br>We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's<br> Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish<br> that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons<br> entitled to constitutional rights.<br><br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.MoveToAmend.org">http://www.MoveToAmend.org</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>washlug mailing list<br>washlug@washlug.org<br>http://linux.marcdatabase.com/mailman/listinfo/washlug<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>