From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266664AbUBFHOO (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 02:14:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266669AbUBFHOO (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 02:14:14 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:48008 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266664AbUBFHOL (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 02:14:11 -0500 Subject: Re: HFSPLus driver for Linux 2.6. From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Andrew Morton Cc: Dylan Griffiths , Linux Kernel list , Roman Zippel In-Reply-To: <20040205200217.360c51ab.akpm@osdl.org> References: <402304F0.1070008@thock.com> <20040205191527.4c7a488e.akpm@osdl.org> <40231076.7040307@thock.com> <20040205200217.360c51ab.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1076051611.885.25.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:13:32 +1100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 15:02, Andrew Morton wrote: > Dylan Griffiths 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.