Darwin UFS Support?

[Michael Dexter]

Hello all,

My original motivation behind the question was for use with 
cross-platform disk formats. Mac/Darwin UFS and FreeBSD UFS/FFS/UFS2 
seem to have taken different paths long ago, as astute readers 
pointed out.

For what it's worth, it appears my Darwin to FreeBSD x86/ppc options are:

HFS+
Native to Mac and ported by yar thanks to APSL - may gradually lose support.

Fat32
The classic "cross platform" format, unless MS goes patent crazy. 5.x 
has reportedly imported Apple APSL code for improved functionality. 
Best bet?

Ext2
Mac drivers are at sourceforge and are reportedly stable. FreeBSD 
side would probably need sparse superblocks turned off as per Michael 
Lucas' "compat_linux the Hard Way" at onlamp (point compat_linux at a 
real RH install).

mount and maintenance utilities appear to exist in various forms for each.

It sounds like Darwin UFS may never sync with FreeBSD because of the 
work that would be involved.

For those after Windows support, the "captive-ntfs" driver (using MS 
binaries) may be adaptable to FreeBSD ... but I'm after 
Mac-friendliness. :)

Thank you all who posted their insights and I wish you well with the PPC port.

Michael.


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>On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:02:52AM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote:
>>  >However the HFS+ module at http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ worked
>>  >beautifully, last time I tried them, even on ppc.
>>
>>   Unfortunately the latest 6-CURRENT buf changes broke this in a way
>>  that I don't think can be fixed 'til if/when/never Apple sync up with
>>  that code :-(
>
>This is why FS projects like this should be committed early to the
>FreeBSD CVS repo.  So that wide sweeping changes are also applied to
>them.  We lost read-only XFS for this same reason.
>
>--
>-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)
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