RE: [HFS] generic/740 failure details

[Viacheslav Dubeyko <Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com>]

Hi Adrian,

On Fri, 2025-06-06 at 08:31 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Slava,
> 
> On Thu, 2025-06-05 at 22:41 +0000, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote:
> > It looks like we need to modify the HFS/HFS+ mkfs tool to refuse the reformat of
> > existing file system and to add the forcing option.
> > 
> > Adrian, How does it feasible such modification?
> 
> It would be certainly possible although we would deviate from what Apple
> does upstream with their hfs utilities. I'll add an issue in my repository
> for hfs for Linux [1].
> 

Could we suggest this option for Apple's repository? Or is HFS tool's code
already obsolete for Apple?

Anyway, we need to have this option. Otherwise, it's too easy to destroy the
existing file system by mistake.

Feel free to assign [1,2] issues for yourself. :)

Thanks,
Slava.

> Adrian
> 
> > [1] https://github.com/glaubitz/hfs/tree/linux  

[1] https://github.com/hfs-linux-kernel/hfs-linux-kernel/issues/74
[2] https://github.com/hfs-linux-kernel/hfs-linux-kernel/issues/215