From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: flar@marcus.pants.nu Message-Id: <200005200554.WAA26536@marcus.pants.nu> Subject: Re: hfs To: dan_bethe@yahoo.com (Dan Bethe) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 22:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <20000503221141.6962.qmail@web1003.mail.yahoo.com> from "Dan Bethe" at May 03, 2000 03:11:41 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Dan Bethe wrote: > > I'm under the impression that HFS is basically a subset of HFS+, i.e. > > HFS+ > > working should fix HFS. I could easily be wrong, though. > Well I would guess that it would, but not automatically. If you go to > an OS that only supports HFS, and you mount an HFS+ filesystem, it will > work but only one file will be available. It's the magic file entitled > "Where have all my files gone?" or something like that. So technically > HFS+ is a superset of HFS. :) No, HFS+ is similar to HFS, and an HFS+ filesystem can be (and usually is) wrapped in an HFS filesystem. All that needs to be read out of the HFS filesystem to get to the HFS+ filesystem is about a dozen bytes of the MDB. > I guess there are a bunch of people speculating all day rather than > coding it, which is understandable. Perhaps the primary maintainers of > the most prominent HFS+ and HFS code can surface and let people know > what they're doing, and what they need help on. Or maybe they'll just > pop up one day and say "Hey we're all done! Here ya go!" :^) No, there's a bunch of people that have things they are being paid to do that take up most of their time. I am the lead of the HFS+ code, and I know I haven't had time to touch it in about 5 or 6 months. The other people who are helping me aren't much better off. If other people want to help, they're welcome... Brad Boyer flar@pants.nu P.S.: I've been exceptionally busy the last few weeks, and I'm way behind in my list mail... Now that E3 is over, I should have a little more time. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/