Re: HFSPLus driver for Linux 2.6.

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 15:02, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dylan Griffiths <dylang+kernel@thock.com> wrote:
> >
> > 	I don't remember where I grabbed this driver, I only know it's much 
> >  more current than the one at 
> >  http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus.
> 
> Sorry, that's a showstopper.  We need to understand who the maintenance
> team is, and evaluate their preparedness to maintain this code long-term.
> 
> We don't want to be adding yet another rarely-used filesystem which has no
> visible maintenance team.

It's a not-that-rarely used filesystem actually :) Been in my tree for
a few monthes and it's used by pmac users either for iPod's or for
accessing the MacOS X partitions.

It's written & maintained by Roman Zippel, and the latest snapshot is
available at http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/ but you probably want
to ask Roman if it's really the latest version before merging :)

One thing we absolutely need too is a port of Apple's fsck for HFS+,
currently, the driver will refuse to mount read/write a "dirty"
HFS+ filesystem to avoid corruption, but that means we have to reboot
MacOS to fsck it then... But that limitation shouldn't prevent merging
it.

I suppose it may be good to also merge Roman's cleanup/rewrite of
the old HFS filesytem...

Ben.