Just connect your SGI XFS formatted disk, and it will automatically show up in the finder as a connected drive.
#Macfuse mount ext4 mac os x#
I have a mid-2010 iMac running Mac OS X 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion), and can confirm in tandem with OSXFUSE, this XFS driver works as stated. The System Information application reports that it's currently connected under the USB2.0 hub and that it ought to achieve speeds up to 480Mb/sec, although I'm pretty sure I'm getting way less than that. Being a disk full of videos and music, you can imagine that the files are not exactly small - but the transfer rate is quite adequate for what I need it for (basically copy the whole volume). Nevertheless, the whole point is that *it works*. Oh, sure, don't expect high performance and the disk is mounted read-only in any case. Eventually, however, things 'clicked', and somehow the drive managed to get mounted - and recognised by macOS Catalina Beta! - and now I'm happily copying over everything I can. Besides lots of very cryptic errors, the utter lack of any semblance of documentation wasn't exactly reassuring. As such, fuse-xfs had a hard time to actually mount the correct partition. I tried several Fuse drivers, but allegedly this particular partition is formatted with XFS, although mounted in weird ways under the Iomega drive. Sadly, though, that's as far as the Mac goes. That macOS immediately recognised an attached drive and even could read the partition table was astonishing by itself. The external USB appliance I've got is a no-brand device from China which comes only with software for Windows that it works at all under macOS - not to mention the Catalina Beta! - is a miracle in itself. Oh, sure, I had several glitches and false starts I even managed to get an unresponsive USB port at some point. Today, after a lot of tinkering and experimenting, I finally managed to get macOS to fully recognise the disk using fuse-xfs.
#Macfuse mount ext4 install#
The amount of complexity to get this going is simply staggering! Indeed, when the original Iomega-supplied hard disk failed, and I had to buy a new one and install it, there was simply no way to do it except mounting the disk physically attached to a box running Linux (which I did, back then) - the embedded OS that the Iomega NAS used. I'm writing a review in 2019, about a project that seems to have been abandoned in 2016 or so (or perhaps not!), trying very hard to use 'something' that runs under macOS Catalina Beta (the final release of which will only appear later this year) to open a disk from a very old Iomega NAS, now connected through an USB port.
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