On 29/09/2007, Scott Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > (ref: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=104338227301552&w=2) > > surprisingly, the patch to enable i386 installations for hfsplus never made > it into the ports tree (or if it did, it's not there as of OpenBSD-3.9). > Anyway, this was _exactly_ what I needed to solve a rather annoying set of > requirements: > > 1) filesystem that's writeable on OS X > 2) filesystem that's readable on OpenBSD > 3) filesystem that supports file sizes > 4GB > > While OS X supports some flavor of UFS, formatting a drive on OpenBSD first > and then plugging it into a Mac gives no useful results. Formatting as UFS > on OS X gives a 2^31-1 file size limit. NTFS write performance is too slow > with MacFUSE to be worthwhile for what I'm doing (backing up DVD images). > FAT32 also has 2^31-1 file size limit. Transferring many 4.5GB files over > the network (even if it were direct crossover cable) would take way too > long, so I'm making my DVD images on the macbook, writing them to an external > drive, and then plugging that drive into my server (with the terabyte of > RAIDFrame inside).
What about ext2? I even made a windows box read and write to it, so I would be surprised if mac wouldn't be able to deal with it. > thanks again for the solution to a challenging problem. > - -- > Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net | 0x5537F527 > Less and less is done > until non-action is achieved > when nothing is done, nothing is left undone. > -- the Tao of Sysadmin > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (OpenBSD) > > iD8DBQFG/fM+WaB7jFU39ScRAithAKDaq32QNOdWVxK+vrSl54cc6w4GLQCgzkin > PmfHOY3qLavMd3GgOiMRhJE= > =7zhK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- viq
