Re: External HD fs was: Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 02:03:03PM +, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 15/11/10 13:54, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > > > > > there are very good reasons to use anything but DOS-FAT. For example > > F10 and F12 automount said filesystems with drastically different options > > by default (filename downcasin

Re: External HD fs was: Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 11/15/10 8:39 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > I assume that OS-X has not trouble with mounting various LinuxFS given > that it is a *nix breed. Being unix-ish doesn't really help, you need an actual filesystem driver for the OS. There is an ext2/ext3 driver for osx (based on the bsd driv

Re: External HD fs was: Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/15/2010 02:03 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 15/11/10 13:54, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > >> there are very good reasons to use anything but DOS-FAT. For example >> F10 and F12 automount said filesystems with drastically different options >> by default (filename downcasing), using any other FS av

External HD fs was: Re: Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

2010-11-15 Thread Frank Murphy
On 15/11/10 13:54, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > > there are very good reasons to use anything but DOS-FAT. For example > F10 and F12 automount said filesystems with drastically different options > by default (filename downcasing), using any other FS avoids this trap > and many other issues. > > Richa