U nraid, the popular operating system for self-hosted servers and NAS boxes, just released Unraid OS 7.2 as a public beta. It ...

MacFUSE, the Mac OS X version of the FUSE plug-in file system architecture, has been updated to 2.0. In addition to preliminary 64-bit support and a preference pane for easier installation and ...

Depending on the partition scheme, these are the file systems Mac OS 10.4 supports: Mac OS Extended or HFS+ is an improved version of Apple's Hierarchical File System from the mid-1980s.

FUSE has its limitations, however. File system access performs less well than with native kernel support, for example. On the other hand it offers vast flexibility in storage options.

HFS+ Mac OS Extended (HFS+) was introduced in 1998 for Mac OS 8.1, the previous iteration of the desktop operating system found on Apple’s computers which ran on IBM’s PowerPC processors.

Windows' default NTFS is read-only on OS X, not read-and-write, and Windows computers can't even read Mac-formatted HFS+ drives. FAT32 works for both OSes, but has a 4GB size limit per file, so it ...