From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:24:15 -0900 From: Ethan Benson To: linuxppc Subject: Re: TiBook, 1394, iPod working (sort of ;-) Message-ID: <20011126232415.F10071@plato.local.lan> References: <2C5637A6A7CE844EA3C0A94565479F520B4787@dest-as20-002.int.bauer-partner.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <2C5637A6A7CE844EA3C0A94565479F520B4787@dest-as20-002.int.bauer-partner.com>; from Klaus.Halfmann@bauer-partner.com on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:02:40AM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:02:40AM +0100, Halfmann, Klaus wrote: > > HFS+ Volumes are wrapped in a HFS-structure for security reasons, you > can > find out about his at some Website at Apple. uh, security reasons? ive never heard that and can't believe it provides any sort of real security. the only motivation ive ever read/heard about was to keep feebleminded macos users from being confused and frightened by older versions of MacOS helpfully offering to erase the HFS+ partitions/disks. > I once started doing a set of HFS+ Tools but got stuck due to personal > reasons. > The current state is that _reading_ works and writing works a little > bit. > I'd be happy someone would care about these. There is a (rotten) tarball there are plenty of people who seem to care, just none of them a) know enough about filesystem hacking to help, or b) don't care enough to want to hack on it. ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/