SAN woes

[Kristian Hermansen]

On 2/23/07, Tom Metro <blu at vl.com> wrote:
> Another theoretical approach would be to use an open source file system
> on the SAN that can be fully supported by all the client machines. For
> example, I've found that it is far easier to get Windows machines to
> support EXT2 file systems[1] than to get Linux machines to support the
> proprietary NTFS. I don't know, but I'm betting there is EXT2 support
> available for OS X.
>
> Also, in the past year there have been some significant strides made in
> support of NTFS for Linux (drivers that can reliably write to NTFS and
> supposedly with good performance)[2][3]. It might be worth checking to
> see where that currently is at, and whether anyone is working on porting
> it to OS X.

FUSE + NTFS already works quite well on Linux.  Guess what?  Google
released some versions for Mac recently :-)
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2007/01/taming-mac-os-x-file-systems.html
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Kristian Hermansen

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