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* [ANNOUNCE] HFS+ driver
@ 2003-05-07 15:06 Roman Zippel
  2003-05-07 15:40 ` David S. Miller
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From: Roman Zippel @ 2003-05-07 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-hfsplus-devel; +Cc: linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel

Hi,

I'm proud to announce a complete new version of the HFS+ fs driver. This 
work was made possible by Ardis Technologies (www.ardistech.com). It's 
based on the driver by Brad Boyer (http://sf.net/projects/linux-hfsplus).

The new driver now supports full read and write access. Perfomance has 
improved a lot, the btrees are kept in the page cache with a hash on top 
of this to speed up the access to the btree nodes.
I also added support for hard links and the resource fork is accessible 
via <file>/rsrc.

This is a beta release. I tested this a lot, so I consider it quite safe 
to use, but I can't give any guarantees at this time of course. There is 
also still a bit to do (e.g. the block allocator needs a bit more work).

The driver can be downloaded from http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/ .
The README describes how to build the driver.

If something should go wrong, I also have patch for Apple's diskdev_cmds 
(available from http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.2.5/), 
which ports newfs_hfs and fsck_hfs to Linux and fixes the endian problems. 
The patch is at http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/diskdev_cmds.diff.gz . 
After applying the patch the tools can be built with 'make -f 
Makefile.lnx'.

bye, Roman



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* Re: [ANNOUNCE] HFS+ driver
@ 2003-05-07 15:55 Jeffrey Baker
  2003-05-07 16:38 ` Miles Lane
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Jeffrey Baker @ 2003-05-07 15:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

> I'm proud to announce a complete new version of the HFS+ fs
> driver. This work was made possible by Ardis Technologies
> (www.ardistech.com).  It's based on the driver by Brad Boyer
> (http://sf.net/projects/linux-hfsplus).

This is a huge development for iPod and other mac users.

> +Apple Extended file system support (read-only) (EXPERIMENTAL)

The "(read-only)" part should be removed, no?

-jwb



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2003-05-07 15:06 [ANNOUNCE] HFS+ driver Roman Zippel
2003-05-07 15:40 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-07 16:14 ` Daniele Pala
2003-05-07 19:39 ` Brad Boyer
2003-05-07 23:53   ` Roman Zippel
2003-05-08 21:34 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-05-08 21:47   ` Brad Boyer
2003-05-08 22:12     ` J.A. Magallon
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