Which file system?

[salils]

Which file system should I chose for running os x (panther). I would mainly being using final cut pro. I have two drives: 80gb (system drive) and a 300gb (video drive) should they both use the same file system? And which one(s) would be the best choice?

 

[jeremy.king]

HFS+

Edit: Journaling is up to you.

 

[yellow]

Yeah, you really don't have much choice here. HFS+

If you have to do cross-platform work with the external, you might have to go with Fat32, but then you hit file size limits (4GB?), which won't do you much good with FCP.

Of course, you could always get MacDrive for the PC so it can read/write to HFS+ file systems.

 

[salils]

Is there any use of Unix file system? I won't be using any unix machines with it so is that useless?

 

[grapes911]

Is there any use of Unix file system? I won't be using any unix machines with it so is that useless?

No use for Unix file systems (ext2 or ext3 or whatever they use). Linux/Unix reads and writes most files systems pretty well, so I let Linux adapt to other systems rather than let OS X or Windows adapt to Linux. If you are only going to use a Mac, stick with HFS+.

 

[grapes911]

..you might have to go with Fat32, but then you hit file size limits (4GB?)...

Close. It's actually 4GB minus one byte. But who's counting? 😉

 

[yellow]

(ext2 or ext3 or whatever they use)

Technically: UFS

I concur.. if going into this, you cannot definitively say to yourself "I need to use UFS with this Mac", then I wouldn't bother worrying about it.

 

[grapes911]

Technically: UFS

Will OS X install on UFS or is it just there to format/read/write non-System hard drives?

Edit: Now that I think about it, it should. I think many versions of BSD still use UFS.

 

[yellow]

Hmm.. I don't quite know. Like you, my memory sucks (you had mentioned this in another thread I think). I believe that OS X will install on UFS, but there are some inherent oddities. Unfortunately, I cannot find any corroborating evidence at the moment.

 

[jeremy.king]

Hmm.. I don't quite know. Like you, my memory sucks (you had mentioned this in another thread I think). I believe that OS X will install on UFS, but there are some inherent oddities. Unfortunately, I cannot find any corroborating evidence at the moment.

I do know that I was asked as part of the Erase and Install option whether I wanted UFS or HFS+, so I got to imagine it would install on UFS as well.

 

[yellow]

I do know that I was asked as part of the Erase and Install option whether I wanted UFS or HFS+, so I got to imagine it would install on UFS as well.

That's that assumption I'm working on as well. I do seem to remember some peculiarities with it however. Something about data forks? To Google!

 

[iMeowbot]

One place where UFS can cause confusion for Mac (and Windows) users is case sensitity. By default HFS is case insensitive, but UFS is always case sensitive.

 

[yellow]

Ah, right.. I've not played with the new HFS+(+) with case sensitivity in Tiger. I didn't see the need for me (personally).