Linux – How to mount a UFS drive in linux

As of GNU coreutils 7.5 released in August 2009, sort allows a -h parameter, which allows numeric suffixes of the kind produced by du -h:

du -hs * | sort -h

If you are using a sort that does not support -h, you can install GNU Coreutils. E.g. on an older Mac OS X:

brew install coreutils
du -hs * | gsort -h

From sort manual:

-h, --human-numeric-sort compare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G)

i don't think it's possible just like you put it.

iSCSI is a block-level protocol. if several hosts access the same block device, they have to somehow arbitrate the use of the data stored there. Usually that means using a cluster-aware filesystem (GFS, OCFS2, CXFS, etc).

SMB/CIFS is a file-level protocol. it shares files with several clients, doing all the arbitration needed, and relying on the underlying filesystem.

Solution B should work, as long as you use a cluster-aware filesystem on this partition. oterwise, as soon as you use that block device from two hosts, you'll totally corrupt it.

It's not a 'rube goldberg'-like solution at all, since any fileserver works on top of a filesystem, you would just use a cluster-aware one. in fact, one of the most common use of cluster filesytems is as shared storage for several (smb/nfs) fileservers, distributing the processing and bandwidth load of file serving the same files.

in short: if you want block-level sharing, you have to use a cluster filesystem. if you also have non-cluster clients, you can add a fileserver on top of that filesystem.