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From: "Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com>
To: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>,
	linuxppc <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: TiBook, 1394, iPod working (sort of  ;-)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 02:40:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p05101000b82a6b5266c7@[10.0.0.42]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011127155855.G10071@plato.local.lan>


At 3:58 PM -0900 11/27/01, Ethan Benson wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:28:47AM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote:
>>
>>  Well, according to Apple's documentation, the only version of HFS+
>>  is version 4, so I have no idea what's up with that...
>
>well it also doesn't document things like the permission bits, it just
>says they are unused and reserved, obviously this is not the case
>given OSX, apple just has not updated this document.
>
>that means theres a bit of reverse engineering involved as well since
>apple is using a newwer version of HFS+ which is not entirely
>documented.

The documentation is the source now, it would seem.  (just like much
of Linux :)  See:

   xnu-9-1/bsd/hfs/

in the Darwin kernel (aka "xnu") source.  hfs_format.h defines the
on-disk layout, including the structure used for storage of
permission bits.

 From the information in that file it looks like the HFS+ version is
still 4, BTW.

Looks like it should even be possible to figure out how Apple did the
hard- and soft-link hacks.  Maybe one day Linux will be able to boot
directly from HFS+ just as Darwin does.  That would be perverse.  :)
--
Tim Seufert

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-28 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-27  1:33 TiBook, 1394, iPod working (sort of ;-) Ira Weiny
2001-11-27  8:19 ` Ethan Benson
2001-11-27 17:28   ` Brad Boyer
2001-11-28  0:58     ` Ethan Benson
2001-11-28 10:40       ` Timothy A. Seufert [this message]
2001-11-28 11:55         ` Ethan Benson
2001-12-28 11:22       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-27  8:02 Halfmann, Klaus
2001-11-27  8:24 ` Ethan Benson
2001-11-27 18:15 ` David A. Gatwood
2001-11-27 22:18   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-11-27 23:20     ` Ira Weiny

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