I have had a lot of success using HFS+ filesystems with the journal disabled. You can actually turn journaling on and off in OS X using (I think) diskutil, without having to create a new filesystem.
I have also heard that writing to HFS+ without turning the journal off is the kiss of death. I have a shared filesystems for music that I rip to from Linux and from OS X which is HFS+. The files there seem fine. Obviously YMMV. Good Luck, -- Erik On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:52:59AM -0500, Jon Grosshart wrote: > On 3/14/07, Sheer El-Showk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Ideally I would like to have my files > >on some partition that both OSes could safely read and write to. I > >would also like this to be a grown up file systems with permissions, > >journaling, etc... so not VFAT. > > > > I'd be interested in a solution as well... I have an NAS drive on VFAT which > works great for storing dmg's and the like but ruins actual system files. So > it's not viable for a direct backup medium. > > I am aware that Linux can mount HFS read/write but I have heard its > >not that safe. > > > > It's not safe in my expeirences with doing this. Mounting OSX as "rw,force" > in fstab gave me a non-bootable OSX after a couple days with no clear way of > fixing it. Threw me to a black OSX command prompt after the spinning wheel > bootup screen asking for a user name/passwd, none of which worked... :-( > Couldn't login in as root or my user. Format time.. No fun... Pretty sure > it's because the HFS partition was journaled. I'm betting that if you > install OSX on a non-journaled HFS, linux won't bork it while writing. Not > sure... > > Jon > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
