Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch HFS+ Journaled
I have tried the Paragon software on my Ubuntu box, and it does give full read+write access to Journaled HFS+ formatted drives. However I can currently only access it as root, and unmounting as non-root from the desktop can corrupt the entire HFS volume beyond repair. So I think it needs more work before it can be incorporated into a product like Squeezebox. Also the license is only for personal use. If Logitech wants to use it, I am sure they will have to pay $$$. Similar to Paragon's NTFS HFS solutions for linux, Tuxera also have an NTFS, HFS and exFAT solution for linux. exFAT might be a good idea for Squeezeboxes in the future since it overcomes many of the limitations of FAT, is the default file system for newer high capacity SDXC cards, and is now natively available on newer Win and Mac systems. Of course they would have to pay $$$ for the Microsoft/Tuxera tax. As my collection grows larger, I find myself increasingly worried about data corruption. I currently have my music mirrored on an HFS+ drive and an NTFS drive. I've been toying with using ZFS, and Btrfs but haven't yet worked out a solution that will be compatible across the Mac, Linux and Windows platforms that I use routinely. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77043 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch HFS+ Journaled
I just came across software from Paragon-Software - HFS+ and NTFS for Linux http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-linux-per/download.html This something Logitech can take a look at implementing in its Tiny embedded linux on the Squeezebot Touch WIth this Macintosh users can create one drive which can hold files to be played off the network, of if so desired unmount the disk from the network and attach directly to the Touch via USB. -- davidavdavid -- David - tech geek/hacker audiophile Gear: Tech - Apple MacBook Pro and MacBook running iTunes, Vox, XLD, Audirvana Audio - BelCanto Design Amplifier/Dac, Logitech Squeezebox Touch, Cardas, Kimber Platinum Audio, Audio Note, Musical Fidelity davidavdavid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=45579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77043 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch HFS+ Journaled
The Squeeze OS is running on an embedded Linux system and Linux can mount a HFS+ journaled disk. The disk needs to unmounted properly from OS X, so the journal is empty, and then on the Linux side of the equation, the mount has to be forced, so it can be both read and write and not read-only. The trick is to make sure the journal is empty (clean unmount on the OSX side) and to force the mount. Normally Linux will mount it read-only with a command similar to this: mount -t hfsplus -o rw,force /dev/sdx1 ds It would be far more convenient for Mac users to have this support and I believe HFS+ is far more lenient with respect to file names and sizes. -- davidavdavid davidavdavid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=45579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77043 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
[SlimDevices: Touch] Touch HFS+ Journaled
I'm guessing that the touch does not support plain old HFS+ (let alone the journaled variety) at this point in time. I know that linux support for Read+Write on HFS+ is not the greatest, so I understand this. Nevertheless, how hard will it be to get the Touch to mount an HFS+ Journaled USB portable drive in Read-only mode and write the database to a flash card? Does this require major work, or can it be done by an end user with basic unix skills? The reason I ask is that i currently have about 600GB of music (mostly FLAC) on a 880GB Seagate USB drive which is formatted as HFS+ Journaled, and there are several reasons why I don't want to reformat this as either FAT32, NTFS or EXT3. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77043 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch HFS+ Journaled
No, HFS is not supported due to the lack of RW support for journaled mode. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77043 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
