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Aelf
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 Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject: Sharing backup disk Linux and OSX -- only bad filesystems? |
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I use Gentoo and OSX mostly, and I have realized that an external FireWire drive for fast backups and moving big files between the systems would sometimes be useful.
However, there seem to be NO good filesystem choices for such a disk. That is, journalling and reasonably modern. The situation is ridiculous.
Linux can read HFS+ but only write if the journal is disabled. The UFS supported by OSX does not seem to be rw in Linux. Rumour has it that it may be possible get software running under OSX that can read (and write?) ext2. Still no journal. Now, here comes the really bad choices. Both systems have read access only to Windows NTFS. Both Linux and OSX fully support the old Windows vfat (FAT32), and of all bad choices this is not I want to resort to.
There is probably small chance of talking Apple into adding support for another modern filesystem when they put their effort into HFS+. Any chance of getting support in Gentoo Linux for read and write of journalled HFS+? Any other good choices that I have simply missed?
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frostschutz
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| If the Mac really does not support one single of the many open filesystems that Linux supports... I can hardly believe it, even for Windows there is software to make it able to read ext2/3 partitions... then that only shows that proprietary software is bad, no matter wether it's made by Apple or by Microsoft. Shucks. |
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kernelOfTruth
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