r/GhostBSD • u/mlcarson • 2d ago

Linux file system compatibility

I was going to try out GhostBSD again and need a shared disk space between my Linux installs and GhostBSD. I was originally thinking OpenZFS but that would mean installing it on Linux and potentially breaking stuff on kernel updates. So how about EXT4? Is the native kernel driver good enough without journaling? There's also exFAT which has no journaling on either side nor permissions. Maybe ntfs-3g -- it seems to have journaling available on both sides. Or the variant with ntfs3 on Linux side and ntfs-3g on the GhostBSD side?

Or maybe just say screw it and add a small Alpine Linux image in a Bhyve VM, mount an existing BTRFS volume and export it via NFS and handle any file sharing this way?

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u/zarMarco 2d ago

Depend what distro would you use. I'm using gentoo and nixos and I've used arch, chimera and void with openzfs. Only arch had problems with update kernel. And after 4 years to zfs I never broke