OT question about Macbook (OS X) file systems

Tomasz Torcz tomek at crocom.com.pl
Wed Aug 20 06:37:51 UTC 2008


Dnia 2008-08-19, wto o godzinie 16:10 -0700, Dean S. Messing pisze:

> Is there F/S that Mac and Linux have in common that supports
> symlinking?  I have the ntfs-3g stuff installed on this F8 machine,
> but I don't know if (i) Mac speaks it and (ii) it supports symlinks.
> I can find out for myself if (ii) is true, but I don't
> have access to a Mac to find out (i).

  ZFS. Macs have it built-in, on Linux you need zfs-fuse (just like
ntfs-3g). Plus, you got data integrity protection (provided enough
redundancy) thrown as bonus.

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Tomasz Torcz




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