Supported Filesystems....

[Texatl]

I have Red Hat installed on my PC and am looking into possible installing some sort of Linux on a PPC box or laptop. But,...

What kind of Filesystem support does the PPC Linux's have?? I know Red Hat has support for 40 different filesystems (ext2, ext3, reiserfs, ufs, vfat, hpfs, etc....) I am hoping something like YellowDog, Debian, Gentoo, SuSe wold have similar file system support under PPC. But, I cannot find that information on ther sites.

It's very important to my decision to install or not. If they don't support other filesystems, then I can just stay with OS X on the Mac. But if they do support the wide range of filesystems I would dual boot or go solely with Linux.

Thanks in advance,
Texatl

[sarah31]

i don't seem to recall what is supported but i think you will be a bit limited. personally OSX is a superior DE to anything linux and XFree offers. But thats just me. i just spent money i don't have to get a powerbook with OS X. I will not dual book or even think of putting linux on it.

[truls]

Well, I'm considering buying an iBook and I've checked about this a bit.

Apparently Mac has two filesystems HFS and HFS+. There's an article here (http://www.mklinux.org/using_mklinux/xhfs.html) where this is discussed. Apparently you can read the HFS filesystem, but not the HFS+. Writing to HFS is not recommended. It looks to be a bit like the ntfs support, read is fine - writing is, well, not recommended (this probably means that it doesn't work, doesn't it?).

[Texatl]

I actually need just read access to various filesystems, kind of like RedHat on the x86. I agree with Sara31 that OSx is a great OS, but can I mount a vfat system as read only and see the directory tree structure?

In x86 Linux I just:

mount -t vfat ro,loop /dev/hdx mnt/blahblahblah

or

mount -t ntfs ro,loop /loc/of/image mnt/imagexxx

Then I can use nautuilus (and the like) to view the directory structure and files. But I can only do this because RH on x86 has filesystem support for over 40 filesystems. So while I have no interest in writing to these filesystems, I do want to veiw them in the natural structure and format.

I would like to see if a Linux PPC distro can do the same. I guess I need to know if this support is general to the Linux kernel or distro specific.

let me know what you all think,
Texatl

[Hayl]

Originally posted by Texatl
I would like to see if a Linux PPC distro can do the same. I guess I need to know if this support is general to the Linux kernel or distro specific.


it is general to the linux kernel.