> 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.
Why do you need a file system? Do you want to use the files in place on the USB drive? Otherwise you could just tar onto the block device for the USB drive. You could experiment with the tar block size to speed up transfer. If you do need tu have a file system, have you tried UDF? Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/~vab/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: vab at bb-c.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgr??e: 45 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt
