From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HFS+ support (read-only)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 13:23:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020606132356.B9152@plato.local.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020606052443.A21838@pants.nu>; from flar@pants.nu on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:24:43AM -0700
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:24:43AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote:
> but it can handle most standard UNIX features other than
> hard links, which will show up as empty files. (Don't ask...)
in case anyone is curious the reason for this is because HFS+ has no
support whatsoever for hard links. Apple kludged around this by
making OSX create a MacOS alias pointing to an inode number (or
similar) this macos alias has a special magic id to it so OSX knows to
pretend its a hard link instead of a regular file like it really is.
MacOS aliases are of course stored entirly in the resource fork, which
this implementation has no support for, thus hard link -> empty file.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-06 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-06 12:24 HFS+ support (read-only) Brad Boyer
2002-06-06 21:23 ` Ethan Benson [this message]
2002-06-06 22:50 ` Timothy A. Seufert
2002-06-07 7:25 ` Ethan Benson
2002-06-07 19:16 ` Timothy A. Seufert
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20020606132356.B9152@plato.local.lan \
--to=erbenson@alaska.net \
--cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).