On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 09:48:21 +0100,
Jack Malmostoso , in
wrote:

+> 1) Do you think I can partition my hard drive in three HFS+ partitions
+> (one for Panther, one for Linux and one for data, the /home) and have good
+> performance? Is the HFS+ support in Linux safe, or is it still
+> experimental, as NTFS?

http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/

Quoth:

This driver now supports full read and write access and has a
better perfomance. It also supports hard links and the resource
fork is accessible via /rsrc.

This is a beta release, it was intensively tested, but use at
your own risk

James
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On 2003-12-08, Jack Malmostoso wrote:
>
> 1) Do you think I can partition my hard drive in three HFS+ partitions
> (one for Panther, one for Linux and one for data, the /home) and have good
> performance? Is the HFS+ support in Linux safe, or is it still
> experimental, as NTFS?

Last I looked HFS+ was still experimental. If you need to share data
between OS X and linux, you should be able to use HFS or VFAT. IMO VFAT
is better than HFS in linux, though you'll lose permissions and such.

Okay, I just looked, and in my benh kernel tree VFAT and UFS read-only
are standard; HFS, HFS+, and UFS read-write are experimental. So the
options aren't great, but they do exist.

- --keith

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Jack Malmostoso wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have been a good boy, and Santa will bring me an iBook, and I'd like to
> install Yellowdog 3.0.1., but I'm slightly confused on a couple of issues.
>
> 1) Do you think I can partition my hard drive in three HFS+ partitions
> (one for Panther, one for Linux and one for data, the /home) and have good
> performance? Is the HFS+ support in Linux safe, or is it still
> experimental, as NTFS?

HFS+ seems safe now; however, I don't think Linux can (or should) boot
from it, or that you should (or even can) use HFS+ for Linux home
directories.

> I thank you so much, I really can't wait to put my little fat and greasy
> hands on the iBook...

I know the feeling; the lot of it. :-(

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