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1) What are the odds Tim Cook or Craig Federighi will here about this? 2) What are good filesystems for OS X to adopt? OS X supports other filesystems. Is ther
by niels_olson 12y ago
1) What are the odds Tim Cook or Craig Federighi will here about this?
2) What are good filesystems for OS X to adopt? OS X supports other filesystems. Is there a way to force it to install the OS onto a different filesystem, like ext4?
- duskwuff 12y agoOS X doesn't have full native support for any filesystem other than HFS+. It supported UFS up until 10.9, but that was ancient and awful. It can read and write FAT, but that's even worse. (It doesn't even support permissions, so it couldn't possibly boot from a FAT volume.) It can read and write FATX. I don't think that supports permissions either, though, and it's also annoyingly patent-encumbered. It can read NTFS, but not write to it.
- mindajar 12y agoRe: 2), there are significant parts of OS X that seem to either check for HFS+ or rely on its implementation and bugs, and those things don't work properly on other filesystems. OpenZFS, for instance, still doesn't work with Spotlight, on which a surprising number of things depend these days. https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/FAQ#Limitations https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/FAQ#Limitations If you want to use all the software features of your Mac, your only option is HFS+.
- knweiss 12y agoSoon it will support Spotlight. See https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/Changelog#1.3.1-RC5 https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/Changelog#1.3.1-RC5