Triple boot Lion/Windows/Ubuntu

I am being given a new Macbook Pro for work.  Because of my personal preference for the UI in Mac OS X, and my business requirement to do software development in Windows and Linux, I'd love to be able to triple-boot into either Lion, Win 7, or Ubuntu, and have a common directory tree where I can store data that I need in all three OSes, such as source code trees (mostly managed by Perforce), email profiles (for Thunderbird), and iTunes content, as well as plain old "documents".  Is this something Bootcamp will be able to handle?  If so, what is the best format for the partition hosting the shared data?

What I ended up with was pretty much what the referenced article describes.  I'm so much not an expert on partitioning that I hate to even describe what I think I saw, but if you'll all promise not to laugh me out of the room...
I created four partitions as suggested, one for each OS and one for "Common", but then I found that I couldn't do anything with the Common partition, like format it.  I'm not sure why, but that's what it looked like.  What has turned out to be a satisfactory solution for me is three partitions, one for each OS, and the bulk of the disk assigned to the Linux partition, formatted in ext3.  There is an open source ext3 driver for Windows (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/) that works very nicely, and an affordable (for me, anyway, at $39.95) commercial product, Paragon ExtFS, for OS X, that gives those two OSes r/w access to the Linux partition.  I created a folder there, /Common, and I'm home free.
Well, sort of.  This gives me all three OSes, a common storage center, and a nice little boot menu (rEFIt), but the Linux installation is very problematic.  It seems that our good friends at Apple aren't quite as helpful with Linux as they are with Windows, in that there is no suite of drivers available a la Bootcamp.  As yet, I haven't even figured out the Ethernet setup.  Fortunately, Bluetooth works out of the box, and I can get net access via my iPhone's Personal Hotspot feature.  I use Linux mainly for software development anyway, so it's adequate (just barely) to my current needs.

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    Can't remove Core Storage from hard drive [Apple Discussions]
    How To: Disable CoreStorage on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) [Symantec]
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