Well I have not tested the writing ability that is something I intend to do but reading is very nice. I also for all OS types would recommend FUSE if only as a medium by which additional filesystems can be used.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:22 AM, David Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 honestly would avoid NTFS as a standard it is just well my personal information/usage but I seem to lose drives faster if they are used primarily as NTFS storage then ext3. > 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. Exactly my thought, the backwards capability makes ext2/3/4 the little engine that mounted a howitzer and blew away the competition. ZFS and JFS both have their uses but ext3/2 are my mainstays at the moment. <snip> > 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. Totally agree, though I now tend away from cygwin and just do the vm but having some form on environment you can depend on is a must have. For those who use Mac OS X and are dying for a Gvim equivalent check out the new MacVim. It is now a fully "mac like" experience in terms of the install and wow is it awesome to be able to use VI instead of something else... http://code.google.com/p/macvim/
