Subject: Re: Sharing data across NetBSD and Mac OS X
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/15/2006 12:44:57
"Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84@gmail.com> writes:

> Can Mac OS X read and write to NetBSD's ffs partitions?  This
> could allow me to simply access the NetBSD filesystem, where
> I'd store src and pkgsrc in /usr, as regular.

Not reliably.

> If not, can NetBSD read and write to one of those Apple UFS
> partitions (so that I'd create a shared partition for the sources)?

Yes. My old g3 iBook has its /usr partition as Apple UFS and the OS X
side reads it merrily; I have a G4 tower as well where both / and /usr
are Apple UFS (this is a little trickier because of our stupid &^%&^%&%^
APM-to-disklabel code).

        - Nathan