On Nov 26, John Hughes wrote: > The whole hpxx tool set and the funky way they work is because there > is no current support for mounting an hfs+ file system from within > the linux kernel?
That's correct. There's no stable hfs+ driver for the Linux kernel, though the userland hfsplusutils seem to work just fine. There's a work-in-progress kernel driver at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus/ I don't know much about the status, but it looks like development is still progressing, and I'm sure the authors would appreciate any help.