Note to self: search the group before writing a new post, not after! I did a search just after I posted this I found some useful information, especially that someone is working on this. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth.
Bob On Feb 22, 8:08 am, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone considered making a fuse file system for the Linux file > system ext3. As far as I can tell this does not exist, probably > because Linux people have no need for it. But for Mac people it would > be incredibly useful. It would allow reading (and hopefully writing) > to the ext3 file systems that are on Linux boxes (or more likely on > external drives that you want to use on Linux). Right now there is no > good way to do this. There is an old Sourceforge (http:// > sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx) project that allows ext3 file > systems to be mounted on the Mac but it appears to be dead, and has > not been updated for Leopard (or even for later versions of Tiger I > think). Since ext3 is Free Software, all the source is readily > available which should make producing a Fuse module out of it much > easier. People have made the ntfs-3g fuse module without having the > source, this would seem much easier. I know the Free Software way > would be for me to do this myself, but I lack the knowledge to attack > this. > > Thanks, > Bob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "macfuse-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
