Bob Doolittle schrieb: > The bugster CR (6867533) says nothing about the poor performance of > NTFS, which seems to be the main thrust of the issue...
Well... no. :) My problem is not poor NTFS performance, actually... As a matter of fact, I don't really care about NTFS or ext3 or anything like this; NTFS support on GNU/Linux is not all _that_ good either. The problem is just this: Using the three of these systems (two of them regularly, Windows once in a while), file sharing between them using a large external USB drive is outstandingly painful when it comes to large files (VirtualBox images, in example, or raw video clips). However, given the target user group of OpenSolaris I see so far (developers, Linux migrators), this requirement might come to more importance. I don't really plead for implementing NTFS here... I am searching for a solution to the outlined problem, whichever filesystem involved. If the solution is (speaking hypothetically) to use ZFS (OpenSolaris), fuse-zfs (GNU/Linux) and, say, a "Sun ZFS Driver for MS Windows" (to-be-written) on Windows, this would also do. Or even a different file system... ext3 seems the most straightforward solution, though, as there are at least tools for reading ext3 on MS Windows... Cheers, Kristian
