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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:52:29 +0100
From:      Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        Laszlo Danielisz <laszlo_danielisz@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: external hdd
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On 29 March 2013 18:06, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:

> On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Laszlo Danielisz wrote:
> > If I'm sharing an external 1TB HDD with FreeBSD and OS-X (I wan to use
> Time Machine), what is the best file system to use?
>
> Time Machine is only supported on top of journaled HFS+; I'm not sure how
> fusefs-hfs is doing on FreeBSD, though.  Or you could setup multiple
> partitions and have an exFAT partition for data interchange between other
> OSes.
>
> Regards,
> --
> -Chuck



Now, unless I got things wrong, I believe you're mistaken.

I, for instance, have a Time Machine server running on top of 10.0-CURRENT
with ZFS.
http://www.area536.com/projects/ironclad-time-machine-backups-on-freebsd/



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