Alex wrote: > Hey, all i am looking for some advice, i use my Macbook pro as my > primary laptop and would like to have an external drive that is > Read/Writable by OSX/Linux/Windows any suggestions?.. i'm looking for > something better then FAT32 but i think im asking for to much already.. > > it would be nice if Apple and Microsoft would agree apon a open source > standard file system for 3rd party drives.. i hate using FAT on any > thing over 100gb > Good luck with that. Apple is as bad if not worse than Microsoft.
> Also can any one clear up some misconceptions i might have on EXT2.. > i heard if you are using EXT2 and the power goes.. that there is a GOOD > chance the partition of the drive would be corrupted.. > is this true? is it really more volitile then FAT? No, neither FAT nor EXT2 are journaled, which means that this can happen to either of them. If power is interrupted for example, both ext2 and fatN can get corrupted. NTFS, EXT3, Reiser3/4, are examples of journaled file systems which can resist corruption in these cases. It is important to note that journaled file systems are not immune to these problems, they are just *resistant* to them. > > one of the reasons i ask is there is a EXT2 kernel mod for OSX so i > COULD use an ext2 filesystem on my external hardrives.. > I use ext2 on most of my flash and usb hard drives. There is a decent windows drivers (google for ext2 and ifs) but it sometimes requires a reboot to recognize a removable device. I also use NTFS as there is now some decent read/write support for NTFS these days. > Also i have been thinking of investing into a NAS to solve alot of these > delema's granted its not as portable, but if i could find a NAS that > supports USB drives with ext3 this would solve ALOT of my problems... At home, I have mostly Linux machines with 2 Windows boxes. I share everything over the network which alleviates most of these problems. Mac OS, Windows, and Linux all have excellent support for CIFS and SMB. What this means for you is that a NAS box is probably your best bet. I have a Dlink DNS-323 here that works quite well with Linux and Windows. It should be fine on a Mac, but YMMV. > > suggestions? <flame bait> Don't use a Mac? It may be pretty but it is still a jail. </flame bait>
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