I have had quite a bit of success as well. When the MBP first came out, I had to compile the kernel and copy it into the HFS+ partition (for EFI booting) multiple times. I have yet to corrupt my filesystems, but I haven't put it through much of a stress test.
OSX does support a "Unix" filesystem (haven't determined what this really is), but since my needs were fairly limited (I'm in linux 99% of the time), I just use the Linux HFS+ driver. You could always create a separate shared partition with HFS+, and then if things do get corrupted your OSX will still boot. And of course, you are making backups, right? ~Bradley On 3/14/07, Erik Osheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > 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 > Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > 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 Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
