On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:07:35 -0400 (EDT), Andy Ball
<andy.ball@earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> Hello Steven,
> 
>   SMB> I need to buy a large external hard drive that needs to work
>      > with both NetBSD 3.0.1 and Linux, read-write.  What are good
>      > choices for the file system?
> 
> This will be an unpopular choice and may not suit your application,
> but if you're just using it to move data sets between sites or
> machines, you could consider tar.  I have found this to work across
> platforms, even those that have different partitioning schemes.
> 
You mean just put the tarball on the raw drive?  I thought about that,
but it doesn't quite fit this application. 


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb