Boxee box Filesystem question

[sachinwalia]

I have pre-ordered a boxee box from Amazon. I have one question regarding filesystem supported by boxee. I am primarily a Mac user and most of the time my external hard drives are formatted in HFS+. Fat32 is probably not a good option for streaming HD movies from USB drive so just wanted to check if the boxee box will support HFS+ file system in USB drive (read/write)

thanks.

[se99jmk]

Hi, my understand is that this is a linux system, and won't be supporting HFS+
(I'm also a mac user so would be interested in this)

Just curious though, why would FAT32 be a bad thing? Other than the 4GB individual file size limit.. are your movie files really over 4GB each?

[gmd024]

I have pre-ordered a boxee box from Amazon. I have one question regarding filesystem supported by boxee. I am primarily a Mac user and most of the time my external hard drives are formatted in HFS+. Fat32 is probably not a good option for streaming HD movies from USB drive so just wanted to check if the boxee box will support HFS+ file system in USB drive (read/write)

thanks.

According to Anandtech, it looks as though it may...

"Only SMB and AFS (HFS+) supported for network storage as of now (No NFS / FTP etc.)"


http://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index/...e-inside-story

[kansei]

One potential issue with that Anandtech article..

They're talking about network storage, which means they probably meant SMB and AFP, not "AFS"...

I have a 2x2TB external RAID1 that is HFS+ (and there are several files over 4GB) that I'll need to reformat tomorrow, which means I have to make space on another 2TB drive. Sucks but at least I'll only have to do it once. I just hope that being a Linux-based device, it supports btrfs or at least some filesystem that isn't FAT32.

[mwgriffin]

I have pre-ordered a boxee box from Amazon. I have one question regarding filesystem supported by boxee. I am primarily a Mac user and most of the time my external hard drives are formatted in HFS+. Fat32 is probably not a good option for streaming HD movies from USB drive so just wanted to check if the boxee box will support HFS+ file system in USB drive (read/write)

thanks.

Avner Ronen said in the live release that it supports HFS+. So rest assured, it does support it!

[kansei]

Avner Ronen said in the live release that it supports HFS+. So rest assured, it does support it!

Hopefully not just read support, which is all even recent Linux distros such as Fedora 14 build in (just tested).

Luckily I also have a couple more 2TB disks coming from Amazon today, so I better start the backup process in case I need to reformat.

I'm hoping for Linux filesystem support, I don't want to be stuck with the 4GB limit.

The same day courier is "out for delivery" now, so hopefully I'll find out soon.