You will have problems if any system writes to a shared filesystem.
The
> buffering in Unix, Linux and Windows will make a filesystem
inconsistent
> unless the filesystem has some kind of clustering support built in.

Thus the comment on coordinating access...

> You still
> need to coordinate access if both systems have R/W access to a volume
at
> the same time, but the data is directly accessible.

Lustre, OpenAFS and GFS do well here. GPFS less well, due to more
limited platform support. 

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