On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:56:47PM +0000, Julien Cayzac wrote: > Has anyone tried HFS on an intel box, as an alternative to the > ext3/reiser/jfs/xfs mess?
I'm assuming you're talking about Macintosh HFS/HFS+. I've read/written slices on PPC, and used it to read a firewire drive on Intel. You're going to have a heck of a time getting it to work, if it'd work at all. 1. You'll need an installer kernel that supports it natively, or you'll have to install to another kind of FS, rebuild your kernel, then copy the data over. 2. The kernel will need to reside on a /boot partition that is something grub can read. Grub can do EXT2/3, Reiser3, JFS, XFS, and FFS (maybe vfat, too?). 3. The HFS+ code has only been stable for a short time, so I'm not sure how much I trust it for full-time usage. I'd say just go with JFS. It's fast, reliable, and is a good all-around performer. XFS is also very reliable, but you incur some overhead with it. XFS is, however, very good if you're going to be working with large files often. ReiserFS has bitten me twice (no, it wasn't hardware-related...both drives where the FS failed still work flawlessly with other FSes on them), so I don't use it at all anymore. -- S. Bergeron, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
