Mount XFS on mac

Hey guys,
i had a lacie edmini disk that broke a few days ago. So i opened the box and pulled out the disk and plugged it into a generic usb box. So now i have access to the drive but the partition that i want from the disk is in the xfs format. I havnt had any luck on mounting the drive
So my question for you - Do you know of any software that'll allow me to mount an xfs partition within OSX?
My backup plan must be to run it off a linux live cd but it would be nice to get it out within osx... please let me know! thanks

You can run Linux on a Mac via several emulation and virtualization options as well as directly. One of those options may offer you the ability to do XFS. Emulation and virtualization options are offered here*:
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#WINTEL
Some Unix operating systems available for the Mac are here*:
http://www.macmaps.com/otheros.php
If installing Linux on a Mac without emulation or virtualization that doesn't provide its own PC formatted environment, you'll need to format an external hard drive if it can be mounted on the Mac, or format the Mac a different file system (erasing its contents) to install Linux. Contact the Mac on Linux vendor to ask how this can be done.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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