Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:15 +0800 Ken Hu wrote: > I am a linux and OSx user and I really need to know which filesystem > "really" can work on both Linux and Mac OSx > > The purpose I need this is for my usb external harddisk, I wish I can > plug it to mac and linux box. 1. Mac OSX uses the HFS+ file

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > The hfs & hfs+ drivers might not (probably aren't??) built by > > default. You'd have to roll your own kernel. Not too difficult. > > > > They are built as module in Etch kernel (2.6.18-4). So your root > partition cannot

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Bob McGowan
Marko Randjelovic wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/23/07 20:40, Ken Hu wrote: ¼ Wed 2007-05-23 ¼ 21:25 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty Ð0 What filesystems can your Mac OSx read and write? Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way to mount HFS on Linux. Of course my Mac

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/23/07 20:40, Ken Hu wrote: >> ¼ Wed 2007-05-23 ¼ 21:25 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty Ð0 >>> What filesystems can your Mac OSx read and write? >> Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way >> to mount HFS on Linux. > >> Of course my Mac can read c

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Kelly Harding
Linux should and does work fine with HFS+ as I used my iBook G4 the othe rnight in target disk mode and mounted it on my athlon64 (using Mepis), worked flawlessly. Fat32 (vfat) works with Macs, NTFS won't. OS X will get ZFS with v10.5, if they added XFS too it'd make life so much easier! Kelly

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 04:41, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Eric A. Bonney wrote: >> Ken Hu wrote: >>> Dear All: >>> >>> I am a linux and OSx user and I really need to know which filesystem >>> "really" can work on both Linux and Mac OSx >>> >>> I've found an open

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 07:05, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/23/07 20:40, Ken Hu wrote: >>> Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way >>> to mount HFS on Linux. >>> >>> Of course m

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/23/07 20:40, Ken Hu wrote: > > Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way > > to mount HFS on Linux. > > > > Of course my Mac can read cdrom or dvdrom, but what I need is to plug my > > usb external hard driv

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric A. Bonney wrote: > Ken Hu wrote: >> Dear All: >> >> I am a linux and OSx user and I really need to know which filesystem >> "really" can work on both Linux and Mac OSx >> >> I've found an open source project which tries to make Mac able to read >>

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/07 20:40, Ken Hu wrote: > 於 Wed，2007-05-23 於 21:25 -0400，Douglas Allan Tutty 提到： >> What filesystems can your Mac OSx read and write? > > Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way > to mount HFS on Linux. > > Of

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:40:45AM +0800, Ken Hu wrote: > 於 Wed，2007-05-23 於 21:25 -0400，Douglas Allan Tutty 提到： > > What filesystems can your Mac OSx read and write? > > Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way > to mount HFS on Linux. > > Of course my Mac can read

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-23 Thread Eric A. Bonney
Ken Hu wrote: Dear All: I am a linux and OSx user and I really need to know which filesystem "really" can work on both Linux and Mac OSx I've found an open source project which tries to make Mac able to read ext2 filesystem. I gave it a try but it just doesn't work. The purpose I need this is

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-23 Thread Ken Hu
於 Wed，2007-05-23 於 21:25 -0400，Douglas Allan Tutty 提到： > What filesystems can your Mac OSx read and write? Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way to mount HFS on Linux. Of course my Mac can read cdrom or dvdrom, but what I need is to plug my usb external hard drive

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:15:03AM +0800, Ken Hu wrote: > I am a linux and OSx user and I really need to know which filesystem > "really" can work on both Linux and Mac OSx > > I've found an open source project which tries to make Mac able to read > ext2 filesystem. I gave it a try but it just doe

ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-23 Thread Ken Hu
Dear All: I am a linux and OSx user and I really need to know which filesystem "really" can work on both Linux and Mac OSx I've found an open source project which tries to make Mac able to read ext2 filesystem. I gave it a try but it just doesn't work. The purpose I need this is for my usb exte