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  • 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... 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. Today, after a lot of tinkering and experimenting, I finally managed to get macOS to fully recognise the disk using fuse-xfs. Oh, sure, I had several glitches and false starts; I even managed to get an unresponsive USB port at some point. 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. That macOS immediately recognised an attached drive and even could read the partition table was astonishing by itself. Sadly, though, that's as far as the Mac goes. You need Fuse to go further than that! I tried several Fuse drivers, but allegedly this particular partition is formatted with XFS, although mounted in weird ways under the Iomega drive. As such, fuse-xfs had a hard time to actually mount the correct partition. Besides lots of very cryptic errors, the utter lack of any semblance of documentation wasn't exactly reassuring. 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. Oh, sure, don't expect high performance; and the disk is mounted read-only in any case. Nevertheless, the whole point is that *it works*. 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). 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. But who cares! :-) Great software overall! Many thanks.
  • Not bad ! But read only and 7 Mb/s (12% of USB2 capacity). Native and transparent = nice.
  • 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. Just connect your SGI XFS formatted disk, and it will automatically show up in the finder as a connected drive. Just remember it is _read_ only, but if Mac OS X is your main platform, it saves a trip booting into Linux or Windows just to access your data. I have used fuse-xfs / OSXFUSE to access an XFS formatted USB drive with files backed up from my NAS - a Buffalo LinkStation Duo Pro (Model LS-WVL/E, Firmware v1.64). If your NAS formats drives in XFS, this driver may also work for you, but Buffalo LinkStation owners beware, your internal drive(s) will probably _not_ mount due to a special format used, which is not the same vanilla XFS used for external USB backups. Finally, please also note that your transfer speeds may not be as fast as expected for the interface you have used to connect the drive. For example on a SATA to Firewire 800 adapter, I saw speeds of roughly 20-22 MB/sec. Nonetheless, it is very convenient to be able to copy the files in the native OS X Finder UI.
  • Worked great! I was able to get data off an old XFS volume I found without going to the trouble of finding or creating a Linux host. Great work, devs, and thanks!