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by jurgenkesker 1004 days ago
I reluctantly did buy Extfs from Paragon for this. It's too expensive I think, but there are just no free opensource solutions.
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lxgr 1004 days ago
Doesn't that require breaking glass in Secure Boot these days, just like macFUSE?

I'm not really willing to install a third-party kernel extension just for a custom file system I need once every few months anymore, especially given that Apple's native exFAT drivers now apparently run in the userspace.

They should just make that capability available to the actual-userspace!

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ghusto 1004 days ago
> Doesn't that require breaking glass in Secure Boot these days

You mean turning off system integrity protection? No. I have both ext4 and NTFS from Paragon, and didn't have to do that.

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lxgr 1004 days ago
Not SIP, but you do need to reboot and change some things in recoveryOS involving Secure Boot (or however Apple's equivalent is called), right?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/inst...

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ghusto 1002 days ago
Not here. I do have an intel CPU though, maybe it's different with an Apple CPU?
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lxgr 1002 days ago
Yes, this is an M1/M2 thing only (at least for now).

Apple's secure boot process differs significantly between Intel and Apple CPU.

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