On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 00:15 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > There's various issues with the hfsplus utilities we ship at the moment, > including the fact that fsck.hfsplus crashes on 64-bit. I'd like to > update this to the latest upstream, but code to generate legacy HFS (ie, > pre-HFS+) filesystems has been dropped. > > HFS+ was introduced in MacOS 8.1 in 1998, and support for writing or > creating HFS was removed in 10.6 in 2009. I can't think of any reason > why anyone would really need the ability to create HFS these days, but > wanted to get some feedback from others before dropping it. Does anyone > object?
My understanding is that the so-called "Apple Bootstrap" filesystem required for ppc Macs to boot is HFS. That's what anaconda uses for it. If we could be using HFS+ instead, fine. Dave > > -- > Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
