Linux on the Mac – state of the union

Re:Linux on the Mac – state of the union by willvarfar on Monday December 12, 2016 @09:08AM (#13158067)

Really liked the article.

Quickly jotted down my own progress as a user http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/154376389528/linu...

Really appreciate people making this stuff work, and hope I can use my retina MBP in the long run.

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Re:Linux on the Mac – state of the union by l1k on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:29PM (#13159862)

Thanks! The FileVault2 driver for Linux that you couldn't find is probably this one:

https://github.com/libyal/libfvde/wiki

It's experimental though. Better back up your data.

I'd recommend to create a partition for ZFS and move data there that you want to use on both OSes, or outright install Linux on a zpool and mount that on macOS. This has worked remarkably well for me, even with lz4 compression and all the other great features. Layer ZFS on TrueCrypt if you need encryption, I wrote a howto a while ago but never had the time to update it:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/wiki/Dual-booting-OS-X...

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