Thanks Brian, I'm glad to hear that EXT3 works on MacOSX too. That's good to know.
Over the years (and as the FAT filesystem shows it's age,) I have asked about a best strategy for moving large volumes between multiple operating systems. Most often someone tells me about NTFS3G and how I should standardize my Firewire drives on NTFS and how well it works on Linux, but I haven't found this to be as straightforward as it should be - the permissions model is interesting, and I have to mount it with special flags for regular users to get to the files, etc. I'm quite heavily leaning towards standardizing my external drives on EXT3 at this point. I know now that I can load a driver for Linux, Windows and MacOSX that all support reading and writing EXT3 (and obviously ext2) Also, being open-source, EXT3 won't just magically go away when EXT4 starts to be available in the coming months and years. I guess my thoughts are that it usually works best to integrate a certain amount of open-source support (drivers/apps/etc) into a closed/proprietary OS like developing EXT3 for Windows and MacOSX rather than the alternative, which is to integrate a closed/proprietary technology into an open-source OS (such as NTFS into Linux). In fact, the "if you have to use windows" strategy for me already includes, at a mandatory minimum: Cygwin, OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Gimp, Gvim. Maybe the extfsd is just added to that list and I'll keep a flash drive around to provide these open apps/drivers to Windows systems I need to use. On 10/29/2008, "Brian Friday" <[email protected]> wrote: >Since you've put up the Vista drivers I will add a addendum for the >Mac Versions as well. > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ > >I recommend not allowing automount and I have not used the non read >only but this works pretty well for my needs. > >- Brian >_______________________________________________ >LinuxUsers mailing list >[email protected] >http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
