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04-20-2009, 09:43 PM
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Ext4 filesystem support for MacOSX
i've been searching around if already someone did a kexts in order to add MacOSX support ext4 new filesystems available for linux, and nothing found, i would like to make a try, or at least start the digging for it.
Actually i'm using ext4 on my root linux partition, and ext3 (too lazy, too slow) on my home partition so i can read it from MacOSX, but i would love to move all my linux partition to ext4 which really improve the experience. so the theme is open, i'm hearing any suggestion before start developing..... CPU: Intel Pentium Dual E2140 1.6 GHz. Graphics: Intel(R) 82945G (128 MB). Board: Asus P5GC-TVM/S Chipset: Intel Lakeport-G i945GC. HDD: 232 Gb S-ATA Samsung Version 10.6.2 32bit. Kernel: Vanilla. Audio: VoodooHDA 0.2.2 with prefpane. Video: Stock GMA. PS2 fix: VoodooPS2 USB 2 not working Acer Aspire 4530-6823 CPU: AMD Athlon™ X2 QL-62 2.0GHz. Graphics: Integrated GeForce® 9100M G. Chipset: nForce® MCP77MH. Last edited by erick2red; 04-24-2009 at 03:11 PM. 
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04-21-2009, 01:23 PM
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My point now is: It matters that i use Voodoo kernel instead of Vanilla one for this " kernel development" purposes? CPU: Intel Pentium Dual E2140 1.6 GHz. Graphics: Intel(R) 82945G (128 MB). Board: Asus P5GC-TVM/S Chipset: Intel Lakeport-G i945GC. HDD: 232 Gb S-ATA Samsung Version 10.6.2 32bit. Kernel: Vanilla. Audio: VoodooHDA 0.2.2 with prefpane. Video: Stock GMA. PS2 fix: VoodooPS2 USB 2 not working Acer Aspire 4530-6823 CPU: AMD Athlon™ X2 QL-62 2.0GHz. Graphics: Integrated GeForce® 9100M G. Chipset: nForce® MCP77MH. Last edited by erick2red; 04-24-2009 at 05:29 PM.
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04-28-2009, 12:07 AM
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They all work identical for FS handling so... Apple's HFS and FAT drivers are also opensource and available from: http://developer.apple.com/opensource They should provide a good insight of how Apple builds their FS drivers
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#5
05-30-2009, 02:08 PM
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Wow. You like the bleeding edge. I haven't moved to ext4 yet-- scared away by some of the early 0 byte bugs...
Anyway, I'd second the suggestion of FUSE. I've been using FUSE with ntfs-3g and had very few problems. Plus the abstraction of a filesystem is reasonable to work with, unless you really want to learn IOKit. You could even start with http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fuse project (but you'd have to make the code 64-bit, to add in all the changes in ext4). -- MacBook Pro - have allergy to nickel in the aluminum casing. So my kid gets an expensive toy!  Gateway MX 8738 - Retail, vanilla Snow Leopard 10.6.2 (thanks kizwan!) with Chameleon RC4, modified DSDT. Upgraded to Core 2 CPU (easy to do). Upgraded to 640GB drive. Everything but SD card working. Minor niggles. GMA950 with QE/CI and *no* artifacts.  iMac (luxo/lamp) G4 with Tiger.
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05-30-2009, 04:39 PM
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I already start to learn IOKit, and tried to study the code of the ExtFSManager from sourceforge.
Just check that project, ohh men, that simplyfies the work a lot. I'll check that. I've been a little off to this, because of my real work, but as soon as i can install on my laptop, develop start  CPU: Intel Pentium Dual E2140 1.6 GHz. Graphics: Intel(R) 82945G (128 MB). Board: Asus P5GC-TVM/S Chipset: Intel Lakeport-G i945GC. HDD: 232 Gb S-ATA Samsung Version 10.6.2 32bit. Kernel: Vanilla. Audio: VoodooHDA 0.2.2 with prefpane. Video: Stock GMA. PS2 fix: VoodooPS2 USB 2 not working Acer Aspire 4530-6823 CPU: AMD Athlon™ X2 QL-62 2.0GHz. Graphics: Integrated GeForce® 9100M G. Chipset: nForce® MCP77MH.
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#7
06-02-2009, 01:26 PM
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ext4 not ready for prime time
I'd be wary of ext4, at least until some of the fixes stabilize:
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/05/...uction-Systems -- MacBook Pro - have allergy to nickel in the aluminum casing. So my kid gets an expensive toy! Gateway MX 8738 - Retail, vanilla Snow Leopard 10.6.2 (thanks kizwan!) with Chameleon RC4, modified DSDT. Upgraded to Core 2 CPU (easy to do). Upgraded to 640GB drive. Everything but SD card working. Minor niggles. GMA950 with QE/CI and *no* artifacts. iMac (luxo/lamp) G4 with Tiger.
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06-06-2009, 08:22 PM
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Note i'm a gnome user. 💡 Deploy cloud instances seamlessly on DigitalOcean. Free credits ($100) for InfMac readers. CPU: Intel Pentium Dual E2140 1.6 GHz. Graphics: Intel(R) 82945G (128 MB). Board: Asus P5GC-TVM/S Chipset: Intel Lakeport-G i945GC. HDD: 232 Gb S-ATA Samsung Version 10.6.2 32bit. Kernel: Vanilla. Audio: VoodooHDA 0.2.2 with prefpane. Video: Stock GMA. PS2 fix: VoodooPS2 USB 2 not working Acer Aspire 4530-6823 CPU: AMD Athlon™ X2 QL-62 2.0GHz. Graphics: Integrated GeForce® 9100M G. Chipset: nForce® MCP77MH.
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