From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Boyer Message-Id: <200002171443.JAA18824@marcus.pants.nu> Subject: Re: hfs+ To: dan_bethe@yahoo.com (Dan Bethe) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 06:43:26 -0800 (PST) Cc: omarvo@hotmail.com (marv), linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <20000216093709.29255.qmail@web1003.mail.yahoo.com> from "Dan Bethe" at Feb 16, 2000 01:37:09 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Dan Bethe wrote: > Bless you. Lots of people would be grateful. This would be > tremendously useful, especially if it could be the main crossplatform, > mature, multiuser, unix-like filesystem to share data between Linux and > MacOS 8/9/10 on the same machine. > Beware of duplicate work. There are the hfsutils, which are user > space utilities. And there is something that's either a library or a > kernel module, that someone's working on, which is nonfunctional at > this time. > Do searches on lists.linuxppc.org to find who's doing what. We've > recently discussed this within the last 2 months. > pajama1@mindspring.com and tdilling@oncodev.isc-net.upenn.edu are in > my linuxppc notes as being interested in hfs+ development. > Also see this: > > http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html > > --- marv wrote: > > Who's working HFS+ and can i help? I know some seem and i've been > > reading the kernel vfs docs and the hfs+ docs from apple. > > Reply directly because i was too lazy to join the mailing list > > although > > i did browse through the archives :P I am the one with the mostly non functional code for a kernel filesystem module for hfsplus. The current code is available in my directory on devel.linuxppc.org as a patch against a 2.2.14 kernel tree. However, the big problem now is that the filesystem structure doesn't seem to match what I got out of the Apple technote, which may be due to an error on my part or a lack of info from Apple. I haven't had the time to look into it carefully yet, but if you want to look, I'll do what I can to help. The URL is http://dev.linuxppc.org/pub/users/flar/ which has links to individual patches I have posted. The most recent patch as of this moment can mount a filesystem and has code to read directories and data forks of files, but sometimes misreads the catalog and loses track of files at odd times. It isn't likely to damage disks, but it does crash occasionally and cause strange errors. Brad Boyer flar@pants.nu ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/