OT question about Macbook (OS X) file systems

[George N. White III]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Dean S. Messing wrote:

> I just purchaced a Macbook for my daughter as she's off to college 
> (required by the dept. she's in).  I'm wondering if OS X understands the 
> ext3 filesysystem.  In particular, will it properly handle symlinks 
> generated under linux?  I wd. like to give her a USB disk containing an 
> ext3 filesystem (that has lots of symlinks) with her 25 Gig organised 
> classical music library on it (done on an F8 system).

Why not just set up the USB disk using the mac and rsync the files
across via networking?

OS X doesn't do ext3.  You might be able to create an HFS+ filesystem
(I mount my HFS+ iPOD and write to it with linux, but there are
warnings "write on journalled filesystem not supported").  OS X does
have zfs and linux has fuse+zfs, so that might be worth a try too.

-- 
George N. White III  <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>