On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brad Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:47:12PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > > If you make /boot HFS, the kernel is limited to a read-only mount, and > > so you'd need special tools to write to it: hfsprogs, hfsplus and/or > > hfsutils. So installing kernel debs isn't going to be much easier. > > The 2.6 kernels should have working r/w support for both HFS and HFS+ > (with some minor exceptions like journalling mode on HFS+ or HFS-X). > Have you tried it recently? I know it was broken back in the old days, > but Roman has done a good job of updating them for 2.6. You are correct -- I just checked Kconfig in 2.6.22, the help text for both HFS and HFS+ say read-write. But I remember using HFS+ for a linux root filesystem (around 2.6.22, I was dual booting Mac OS X) and it ended up getting corrupted (a pity, because it was certainly fast enough for the task). I don't know whether the kernel got fixed and I don't know whether HFS is more reliable than HFS+. Regardless, for a low traffic partition it should be fine (certainly worth trying on models without emile support or without SCSI). > Setting creator codes and such is probably easier with the user space > tools, but just creating files and writing to them should work better > using the kernel support. There's no need for extended attributes for our purposes though. -f > Brad Boyer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
