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June 02, 2003
ext3 slowdown
So it seems that my work towards EXT3 support on OSX is going to take a little while longer than expected. My main development platform is a 15" TiBook. I love it for the most part. It's got a rather small hard drive unfortunately, and most of it is currently dedicated to random other pieces of life that I need (work for money!). While working with the KEXT for EXT* support I had been using a USB device drive I was given, very similar to one of these. It worked well, and was wonderful for creating, testing, and blowing away new formats. I could re-format it quickly and re-use it for everything I needed when I needed. At 128MB it wasn't terribly large and could get a copy of everything on my laptop as a third backup source.
Unfortunately, it seems as if someone else has desired this little gem more than I, and relieved me of my ownership of such an item. Rat bastard! The end effect is my work on EXT3 is now on hold until I can get a new drive to work with. Hopefully in a paycheck or two... or three...
On the other hand, I have to say, originally I had thought these little devices to be a complete waste of time and effort. It wasn't until I started using one that I realized how completely wrong I was. Just thought everyone should know and not hold their breathe for EXT3 support anytime soon (at least from me).
Posted by Dan at June 2, 2003 12:26 PM