From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20000303203225.3481.qmail@web1001.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:32:25 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Bethe Subject: Re: HFS+ feature request To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > The official format of HFS+ does specify that the strings are > compared > in a case insensitive way. In fact, it goes further and specifies a > bunch of details about actual Unicode sequences and I really don't > want > to break all of that. I understand that. My request was basically just that we have an option for that. Basically, to have something like this: # mount -t hfsplus -o rw,casesensitive /dev/sda1 /mnt/local/sda1 And the default can be case insensitive-but-preserving, like MacOS and the official specs state. I just want the chance to be able to use it as a "real" filesystem, sharing the maximum amount of space while I still have to deal with the silliness of MacOS :) If I could format /usr with HFS+, I'd give that a shot. If any of you have access to a MacOS 10 which installs its root with HFS+, let's see how it behaves. I have MacOS 10 "Server" 1.0 on my powerbook, and its root fs is UFS BSD 4.4. > If you can give me an image of an HFS+ filesystem with some of this > UNIX style > stuff, I can enable that stuff in the linux driver as well. The > official > spec doesn't say much about the permissions, ownership, devices, etc. > It > just says that they will be supported, and reserves a block for UNIX > style > info like device numbers and uid/gid. I figured I'd ignore that > stuff until > I could get more info about the way OSX would handle it. Good idea. Let's keep cooking on this! It would be funny if eventually HFS+ was the most compatible unix-based filesystem on all Linux architectures :) ===== "Don't expect your own messiah; this neverworld which you desire is only in your mind." -- http://www.dreamtheater.net/songb4.htm#IV5 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/