In debian.powerpc, Ethan Benson wrote: >On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:21:13AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [on HFS+ under Linux] >hfsplusutils as as close as you will ever get. [...] >nope, there is no linux filesystem driver for HFS+ that works, and >likly never will be, there was some work going on but it stalled and >died.
Why is this? If hfsplusutils can happily read from HFS+ volumes, it says to me that the structure of the filesystem is reasonably well documented.. and I can't think of a significant reason why this would not be possible. Mind you, I've never worked with the kernel, so I'm no expert -- there's probably something I'm missing. :) I have definite reasons for desiring HFS+ under Linux, at least until MacOS 10.1 comes out. At that point, read-write UFS would be "good enough" (yes, I know that that's experimental at the moment.) The main reason is that it would be really, really nice to have a large volume on my iBook (already created :) that I can share between Mac OS 9, Mac OS 10, and Linux, simply as a working area. I can get either the first two easily, or the last two if I accept experimental drivers.. but not all three. If it isn't possible, well, I can live with it.. but it would be really nice to have. Cheers. -- Violence is the last resort of the incompetent. The competent, of course, make it their *first* resort.
