From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200007051449.PAA31335@hyperion.valhalla.net> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 15:49:31 +0100 Subject: Re: GNU Parted, linuxppc support coming :-) From: "Iain Sandoe" To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org CC: Andrew Clausen Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Andrew Clausen wrote: > Hollis Blanchard wrote: >> Andrew Clausen wrote: >> > Note: I'm not adding HFS support at this stage - it's a LOT of work. >> > So you'll be able to resize ext2 partitions in the near future, but >> > not HFS partitions :-/ Unless there are some volunteers... >> >> There seems to be a shortage of HFS folks these days. :) But ext2 >> resizing sounds very cool. > > Excuse my ignorance... what FS's do people usually use with MacOS? > HFS/HFS+? > > (Is the point "no-one uses MacOS", or "no-one's hacking on HFS > in Linux"?) People are still using a hybrid of both - this is because dual-boot machines (e.g. all of mine) must use HFS if they want to talk to linux. However, HFS is deprecated in the Mac world and is/will be replaced by HFS+ which includes the necessary support for MacOS X/Darwin and fits more comfortably into the u*ix world (in general). There is an Apple Paper on the issues (http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/papers/USENIX_2000/) which is quite readable. There are also some developers on the list who are actively working on HFS+ (I should be contributing, sorry guys, but am a bit tied up with audio stuff right now). We should keep HFS/HFS+ support - because there are still reasons to dual/multi-boot Macs (e.g. Darwin work and some apps/stuff which just isn't there on Linux... yet). Hope that helps, Iain. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/