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to: Frank Haber
from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2006-07-24 14:31:42
subject: Re: Good Grief, and XFShlp

From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:44c50c7c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Only the briefest hint told me that this graveyard had come back to life.
> Lucky I looked!  EVERYONE's sniffing out xxNIX, it seems.  Me, too.
>
> Here's a toughie.  Anyone know a distrib that can read SGI Irix's/Snap!
> Server's XFS under Linux, and Samba same to another computer?  How about
> AIX's JFS?  Reiser?
>
> Sidebar: OS X ***dropped*** EXT2 read support in TIGER.  An old Digital
> Dolly Live CD I had around brought no joy.
>
> Preferred: something that will run on your average P3/4, and NOT embarrass
> me with having to compile a kernel, which I haven't done since my grey
> cells were much younger.

You can still get OS X Tiger EXT2 3rd party support  - may be still a bit
buggy - reported kernel panic if you do a Spotlight search while an ext2/3
partition is mounted.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18619&vid=270063

A newer development version of ext2fsx is available here:

http://www.bergstrand.org/brian/software/bin/Ext2FS_1.4d2.dmg

Don't worry, it's direct from the developer, as noted here:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1487247&forum_id=218925

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