OT question about Macbook (OS X) file systems

Dean S. Messing deanm at sharplabs.com
Wed Aug 20 16:05:12 UTC 2008


> > 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.

Not according to the apple store tech guy.
(But I really don't know, first hand.  Do you?)

Dean




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