Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
plementation. You are incorrect. The HFS file system has gotten zero development attention and the bugs were not the result of the API changes. The main issue here is that the HFS file system does not have maintainer, and decreasing the workload will not magically make someone appear with deep knowle

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-21 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 21 Jul 2023, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > You've misunderstood. Google have decided to subject the entire kernel > (including obsolete unmaintained filesystems) to stress tests that it's > never had before. IOW these bugs have been there since the code was > merged. There's nothing to

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Michael! On Fri, 2023-07-21 at 07:05 +1200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Installing a new kernel to the HFS filesystem, or a boot loader like > yaboot, might be another matter. But there still is an user space option > like hfsutils or hfsplus. Both won't work with GRUB. grub-i

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-20 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 11:03:28AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jul 2023, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > > I suspect that this is one of those catch-22 situations: distros are > > > going to enable every feature under the sun. That doesn't mean that > > > anyone is actually _using_ them thes

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-20 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 21 Jul 2023, Dave Chinner wrote: > > I suspect that this is one of those catch-22 situations: distros are > > going to enable every feature under the sun. That doesn't mean that > > anyone is actually _using_ them these days. I think the value of filesystem code is not just a question o

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 at 15:37, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > I think you're missing the context. There are bugs in how this filesystem > handles intentionally-corrupted filesystems. That's being reported as > a critical bug because apparently some distributions automount

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-20 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 05:38:52PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 2:39 PM Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 07:50:47PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > Then we should delete the HFS/HFS+ filesy

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-20 Thread Dave Chinner
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 02:27:50PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Thu, 2023-07-20 at 18:59 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 07:50:47PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > Then we should delete the HFS/HFS+ filesystems. They're orpha

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 2:39 PM Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 07:50:47PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Then we should delete the HFS/HFS+ filesystems. They're orphaned in > > > MAINTAINERS and if distros are going to do such a

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-20 Thread Jeff Layton
On Thu, 2023-07-20 at 18:59 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 07:50:47PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Then we should delete the HFS/HFS+ filesystems. They're orphaned in > > > MAINTAINERS and if distros are going to do such a dam

Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode

2023-07-20 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 07:50:47PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Then we should delete the HFS/HFS+ filesystems. They're orphaned in > > MAINTAINERS and if distros are going to do such a damnfool thing, > > then we must stop them. > > Both HFS and HFS

Re: Update on the hfs package

2023-06-18 Thread David VANTYGHEM
Marco LANDI was born in Italy. He worked at APPLE (he was world president) and now lives in France, he invests in artificial intelligence. https://editions-balland.com/Marco-Landi_auteur_6667.html Or sending a petition to Apple? If you have an idea how to do that, I am more than listening. ht

Re: Update on the hfs package

2023-06-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 12:04 +0200, David VANTYGHEM wrote: > Perhaps asking to Marco LANDI at info AT quest-it.com? I don't know who that is. Can you enlighten me? > Or sending a petition to Apple? If you have an idea how to do that, I am more than listening. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian

Re: Update on the hfs package

2023-06-18 Thread David VANTYGHEM
Perhaps asking to Marco LANDI at info AT quest-it.com? Or sending a petition to Apple? Le 18/06/2023 à 11:55, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : Hello! I have made some more progress on the hfs package to the point that it now builds fine on Linux. I have not tested the binaries yet

Update on the hfs package

2023-06-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I have made some more progress on the hfs package to the point that it now builds fine on Linux. I have not tested the binaries yet, except for a quick "mkfs.hfsplus" which seemed to work. All the changes can be found in the "linux" branch in [1]. I have also added a

Re: Collaborating on the HFS code

2023-06-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sun, 2023-06-04 at 11:19 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Since it's easier and more productive to collaborate on this project in > public, > I would like to ask everyone to submit patches via pull request on the Github > project. Ping. Could you guys re-send your patches as pull requ

Re: Collaborating on the HFS code

2023-06-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > There is currently one limitation with the HFS patch as it doesn't allow > > setting > > a custom volume name and hard-wires it to "untitled" [4]. This is because > > the original code uses an Apple-specifc function

Re: Collaborating on the HFS code

2023-06-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Jeffrey! On Sun, 2023-06-04 at 07:11 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Apple has a modified iconv, if I recall correctly. It is modified for > their filesystem, and it properly handles filenames on OS X. I don't > know about MacOS 9, however. > > An open source port of Apple iconv with utf-8 supp

Re: Collaborating on the HFS code

2023-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 5:20 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > [...] > > There is currently one limitation with the HFS patch as it doesn't allow > setting > a custom volume name and hard-wires it to "untitled" [4]. This is because the > original code

Collaborating on the HFS code

2023-06-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! Since I have posted about my initial work on my updated »hfsprogs« [1] package based on the new »hfs« [2] package, multiple people send me patches for improvement off-list. Since it's easier and more productive to collaborate on this project in public, I would like to ask everyo

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
yet. My idea was to start working on the split-out »hfs« package anyway since I am eventually going to update the »hfsprogs« package in Debian unstable anyway. Currently, »hfsprogs« in Debian is based on »diskdev_cmds«. After version 557.x, Apple decided to split out the HFS(+) filesystem code i

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-31 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 30/05/2023 12:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I have started working on an updated »hfsprogs« packages based on the split-out version of the HFS(+) code in the »hfs« package. For this, I have forked Apple's original »hfs« package on Github [1]. Feel free to start contrib

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:12 PM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 09:24:42PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Blocks are like C++ lamda's. ObjC folks like to use them to ensure > > cleanup in a function, like releasing a handle or free'ing memory. > > Funny how the high level de

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 09:24:42PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Blocks are like C++ lamda's. ObjC folks like to use them to ensure > cleanup in a function, like releasing a handle or free'ing memory. Funny how the high level description of them couldn't even bother so explain that. That does ma

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 4:40 PM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 01:24:15PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > I have started working on an updated »hfsprogs« packages based on the > > split-out version of the HFS(+) code in the »hfs« packa

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
t for you then no option. Just trying to make this > as easy as possible... I don’t have a hard requirement on gcc, but hfs currently has a hard requirement on clang which isn’t available on all Debian targets. Adrian

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread Ken Cunningham
Yes, Iain Sandoe has had the blocks patches in his gcc repos for many years now (2016 at least) but has not yet had them polished up enough to push them to gcc mainline. If gcc is a hard requirement for you then no option. Just trying to make this as easy as possible... K On 2023-05-30, at 2:

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Lennart, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I had a poke at it, dealt with a couple of compile issues, then encountered Blocks and went WTF did Apple invent here? I don't even understand the description of their proprietary extension to C/C++/ObjC. I had never seen code with ^ prefixed to things in th

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Tue, 2023-05-30 at 13:53 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: > The blocksruntime library is easy to build and available broadly, > in case just including it becomes the easier path. > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libb/libblocksruntime/libblocksruntime_0.4.1.orig.tar.gz The library has cla

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread Ken Cunningham
out on my »linux« > branch > using a patch originally from Fedora: > >> https://github.com/glaubitz/hfs/commit/d6ea3fe324a6b018ebe7934b9f95a624b047dc2d >> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hfsplus-tools/blob/rawhide/f/hfsplus-tools-no-blocks.patch > > Additional occu

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
riginally from Fedora: > https://github.com/glaubitz/hfs/commit/d6ea3fe324a6b018ebe7934b9f95a624b047dc2d > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hfsplus-tools/blob/rawhide/f/hfsplus-tools-no-blocks.patch Additional occurrences should be patched out in a similar way. Adrian -- .'&#x

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 01:24:15PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > I have started working on an updated »hfsprogs« packages based on the > split-out version of the HFS(+) code in the »hfs« package. For this, > I have forked Apple's original »hfs«

Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I have started working on an updated »hfsprogs« packages based on the split-out version of the HFS(+) code in the »hfs« package. For this, I have forked Apple's original »hfs« package on Github [1]. Feel free to start contributing. It's currently work-in-progress as »fsck_hfs

Bug#1008145: ITP: partman-hfs -- Add to partman support for hfs and hfsplus

2022-03-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org,debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org * Package name: partman-hfs Version : 1 Upstream Author : John Paul Adrian Glaubitz * URL : https://salsa.debian.org

Re: HFS Grub Partition Read-Only

2021-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/29/21 1:25 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > Is there anything we could to do to motivate people to complete Debian > Ports packages regarding contrib and non-free? This is a matter of the Debian Ports FTP admins enabling "contrib" and "non-free" for Debian Ports. It's not related to the pack

Re: HFS Grub Partition Read-Only

2021-05-29 Thread Johannes Brakensiek
Hello Adrian, On 25 May 2021, at 17:18, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: "contrib" and "non-free" have not been added for Debian Ports yet, I will ping the responsible admin again. In the meantime, I will build the hfsprogs package and upload it manually for powerpc and ppc64 later today. p

Re: HFS Grub Partition Read-Only

2021-05-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 5/23/21 7:39 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > Did I do anything wrong? Are there new hfs tools on their way? "contrib" and "non-free" have not been added for Debian Ports yet, I will ping the responsible admin again. In the meantime, I will build the hfsprog

HFS Grub Partition Read-Only

2021-05-23 Thread Johannes Brakensiek
Hello, when trying to update to Kernel version 5.10.0-7 I recognized that my HFS partition at /boot/grub is mounted as read-only now. I am missing any tools like fsck.hfs or the package hfsprogs to check the partition and to mount it rw. As the partition is read-only my system did not break

Re: New HFS test image for 32-bit PowerPC

2021-04-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
submit the new > partman-hfs > package to unstable. I had to rebuild the image because I used the wrong partman-auto [1], but with that images, the /boot/grub partition is indeed created as intended. There is an empty question dialog that just needs to be answered with "No", but I think

New HFS test image for 32-bit PowerPC

2021-04-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! Here is a new test image [1] which is supposed to test the proper partitioning of the HFS boot partition and mounting it to /boot/grub. Note: This image will *not* install GRUB yet properly. The purpose of this image is just to test whether the changes I made to the package partman

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/3/21 7:28 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 2/3/21 4:35 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> The MDB is still corrupted, so I have to look into that: > > And fixed: Just uploaded the patched version of hfsprogs to unstable: > https://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hfsprogs/news/2021020

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread Johannes Brakensiek
On 2021-02-03 19:28:45 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 2/3/21 4:35 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: The MDB is still corrupted, so I have to look into that: And fixed: Great work, thank you! Johannes

Re: Bug#973911: hfsprogs: Version 540.1.linux3-1 no longer supports legacy HFS filesystems

2021-02-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Control: tags -1 +patch Attaching a patch which re-adds support for creating legacy HFS filesystems. I will hopefully upload an updated version with the patch included tomorrow. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.or

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/3/21 4:35 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > The MDB is still corrupted, so I have to look into that: And fixed: root@z6:..hfsprogs/newfs_hfs.tproj> ./newfs_hfs -h /dev/sdl2 Initialized /dev/sdl2 as a 3863 MB HFS volume root@z6:..hfsprogs/newfs_hfs.tproj> fsck.hfs /dev/sdl2 **

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
; calculations are incorrect: >> >> Works: > > In case someone is interested, attaching the preliminary patch. The MDB is still corrupted, so I have to look into that: root@z6:..hfsprogs/newfs_hfs.tproj> ./newfs_hfs -h /dev/sdl2 Initialized /dev/sdl2 as a 3863 MB HFS volume root@

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
32 GetDefaultEncoding(); static UInt32 UTCToLocal __P((UInt32 utcTime)); +static UInt32 DivideAndRoundUp __P((UInt32 numerator, UInt32 denominator)); + static int ConvertUTF8toUnicode __P((const UInt8* source, size_t bufsize, UniChar* unibuf, UInt16 *charcount)); @@ -203,6 +224,146 @@ dowip

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/3/21 4:06 PM, Linux User #330250 wrote: > Wouldn't it be easier to use an earlier version of diskdev_cmds, patch > it to default to hfs instead of hfs+, compile it, and then rename it to > mkfs.hfs as a separate package? > > https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/diskdev_

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/3/21 2:52 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I quickly hacked that together now, but it's not really working yet as some > size > calculations are incorrect: Works: root@z6:..hfsprogs/newfs_hfs.tproj> ./newfs_hfs -h /dev/sdl2 Initialized /dev/sdl2 as a 3863 MB H

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread Linux User #330250
Wouldn't it be easier to use an earlier version of diskdev_cmds, patch it to default to hfs instead of hfs+, compile it, and then rename it to mkfs.hfs as a separate package? https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/diskdev_cmds/ On Gentoo Linux, version 332.14 is still fully supporting HFS

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/3/21 2:52 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I quickly hacked that together now, but it's not really working yet as some > size > calculations are incorrect: Some more progress: root@z6:..hfsprogs/newfs_hfs.tproj> ./newfs_hfs -h /dev/sdl2 Initialized /dev/sdl2 as a 3

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/3/21 12:41 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > OK, I have skimmed through the hfsprogs source again and I think, I will > re-add HFS Legacy support. It should be feasible to add it back in as most > of the functionality is still there. > > There are some extra functions th

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/3/21 12:16 PM, Linux User #330250 wrote: > BUT, one "bug" of this has always been, even with an older version of > the Apple diskdev_cmds, that the option "-h hfs" was always needed. > Therefor, those two command do the same to create an HFS+ volume: > * mkf

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/3/21 12:22 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > No, they don't. Again, Apple removed Legacy HFS support from mkfs.hfs. > > If someone actually wants to step up and help me, then please wipe > up a patch to bring HFS Legacy support back to hfsprogs. OK, I have skimmed thr

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ac does support booting from a HFS volume. > But not all variants of HFS+ are supported by Open Firmware. E.g. if I > remember correctly, case sensitive variants (HFSX) and software-RAID > configurations don't work. > > https://opensource.apple.com/source/bless/bless-37/README.BOOTIN

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-03 Thread Linux User #330250
Am 02.02.21 um 22:17 schrieb Christian Groessler: I need to ask now... On 2/2/21 9:43 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Yes, and that libhfsp-dev is actually built from the hfsplus source package which is a fork of hfsutils to support HFS+ but it doesn't have a hattrib command an

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-02 Thread Christian Groessler
I need to ask now... On 2/2/21 9:43 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Yes, and that libhfsp-dev is actually built from the hfsplus source package which is a fork of hfsutils to support HFS+ but it doesn't have a hattrib command anymore which is used in hfsutils to bless a file s

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/2/21 8:59 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Also OpenBIOS has its own fairly compact HFS+ driver at > https://github.com/openbios/\ > openbios/tree/master/fs/hfsplus which according to the comments is taken from > libhfsp > which still seems to be available in D

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 02/02/2021 19:39, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: - Use HFS+ with hfsprogs and write a blessing tool based on libisofs [2] The code was contributed by Vladimir Serbinenko in 2012, when he was the active maintainer of GRUB. See: https://dev.lovelyhq.com

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > - Use HFS+ with hfsprogs and write a blessing tool based on libisofs [2] The code was contributed by Vladimir Serbinenko in 2012, when he was the active maintainer of GRUB. See: https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/libisofs/raw/branch/master/libis

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/2/21 8:22 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > We could try re-adding HFS Legacy support to hfsprogs [1] which should > be feasible as well. This particular plan would involve: - re-add HFS Legacy support to hfsprogs - create hfsprogs udeb package - create hfsutils udeb package

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/2/21 8:15 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > As I explained, from the installer's point of view, hfsprogs is more straight- > forward because it use the same command line interface as all the other > filesystem > utilities, so that "mkfs -t hfs" works. > &g

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Johannes! On 2/2/21 7:51 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: >> On a sidenote: This variant has the huge advantage that the partioning tool >> in debian-installer takes care of setting up the HFS+ partition and making >> sure nothing gets overwritten etc. >> >> T

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-02 Thread Johannes Brakensiek
Hello Adrian, thank you for your work and your approach towards fixing this issue. On 2 Feb 2021, at 16:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 2/2/21 4:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: In order to solve this issue, we have a couple of options: - Use HFS instead of HFS+ and use the

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/2/21 4:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > In order to solve this issue, we have a couple of options: > > - Use HFS instead of HFS+ and use the old hformat utility in grub-installer On a sidenote: This variant has the huge advantage that the partioning tool in debian-instal

Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
path for GRUB in NVRAM. At the same time, hfsprogs - the original HFS filesystem utilities by Apple - can no longer create HFS filesystem after I updated it to version 543 but only HFS+ filesystems. While NewWorld PowerMacs can actually boot from HFS+ partitions, we're missing a tool in D

Re: O: hfsplus -- Shared library to access HFS+ formatted volumes

2020-11-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Control: -1 retitle ITA: hfsplus -- Shared library to access HFS+ formatted volumes Control: -1 owner ! Hi! As one of the maintainers of Debian's PowerPC ports, I'm adopting this package as it can be useful for manipulating HFS filesystems on PowerMacs. There also seems to be

Bug#973911: hfsprogs: Version 540.1.linux3-1 no longer supports legacy HFS filesystems

2020-11-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: hfsprogs Severity: normal User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc ppc64 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Hello! The recently uploaded version 540.1.linux3-1 of hfsprogs no longer supports creating legacy HFS filesystems as the "-h" flag is

Re: Bug#958522: O: hfsprogs -- mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems

2020-04-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Control: retitle -1 ITA: hfsprogs -- mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems Control: owner -1 ! I will adopt this package to update it to the latest upstream version as HFS support is still needed to support Debian on Apple PowerMac. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adria

Bug#958522: O: hfsprogs -- mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems

2020-04-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: normal User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: powerpc ppc64 Hello! I'm orphaning the hfsprogs package with the intention to adopt it. The package hasn't been updated for a long time by the current maintainer and has a couple of issues that need resolving. He has

Re: [powerpc/ppc64] Fix d-i/grub-installer for NewWorld Power Macs (now with HFS bootstrap!)

2019-03-13 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 3/13/19 21:34, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:56 AM Frank Scheiner wrote: by popular demand for a working d-i/grub-installer on NewWorld Power Macs **with** HFS bootstrap method, I made this happen - again. :-D This time with a reduced footprint compared to the patches

Re: [powerpc/ppc64] Fix d-i/grub-installer for NewWorld Power Macs (now with HFS bootstrap!)

2019-03-13 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:56 AM Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Dear all, > > by popular demand for a working d-i/grub-installer on NewWorld Power > Macs **with** HFS bootstrap method, I made this happen - again. :-D This > time with a reduced footprint compared to the patches propo

[powerpc/ppc64] Fix d-i/grub-installer for NewWorld Power Macs (now with HFS bootstrap!)

2019-03-12 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear all, by popular demand for a working d-i/grub-installer on NewWorld Power Macs **with** HFS bootstrap method, I made this happen - again. :-D This time with a reduced footprint compared to the patches proposed in late 2017 (see [1]). [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/11

[PATCH v2 3/5] Handle HFS file systems (format, mount, unmount, fstab entry)

2017-11-18 Thread Frank Scheiner
ons + * Handle HFS file systems (format, mount, unmount, fstab entry) -- Frank Scheiner Thu, 16 Nov 2017 07:20:38 +0100 diff --git a/grub-installer b/grub-installer index 10cce04..63e4a03 100755 --- a/grub-installer +++ b/grub-installer @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ fi newline=" " +NW_OFF

Re: [PATCH 3/5] Handle HFS file systems (format, mount, unmount, permanent mount). Override $bootfs, $bootfstype, $bootdev and $state for NewWorld Power Macs.

2017-11-16 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 11/14/2017 02:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: +- Handle HFS file systems (format, mount, unmount, permanent mount). This should be "fstab entry", not "permanent mount". Also, please strip ". Override $bootfs, $bootfstype, $bootdev and $state for NewWo

Re: [PATCH 3/5] Handle HFS file systems (format, mount, unmount, permanent mount). Override $bootfs, $bootfstype, $bootdev and $state for NewWorld Power Macs.

2017-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
; index 752849e..4c056d3 100644 > --- a/debian/changelog > +++ b/debian/changelog > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ grub-installer (1.147) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium >d-i/yaboot-installer). > - Detect and select NewWorld bootstrap partitions (adapted from > d-i/yaboot-installer)

[PATCH 3/5] Handle HFS file systems (format, mount, unmount, permanent mount). Override $bootfs, $bootfstype, $bootdev and $state for NewWorld Power Macs.

2017-11-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
@@ grub-installer (1.147) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium d-i/yaboot-installer). - Detect and select NewWorld bootstrap partitions (adapted from d-i/yaboot-installer). +- Handle HFS file systems (format, mount, unmount, permanent mount). -- Frank Scheiner Thu, 06 Nov 2017 08

ISO9660/HFS hybrid powerpc testers needed

2012-06-23 Thread Yoel Jacobsen
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Re: ISO9660/HFS hybrid powerpc testers needed

2012-06-23 Thread Yoel Jacobsen
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Re: ISO9660/HFS hybrid powerpc testers needed

2012-06-23 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 22 June 2012 22:55:49 George Danchev wrote: Hi, Further tests revealed that there is a bug somewhere, which causes production of unbootable and unmountable images. Please, postpone yours tests, and sorry if you've already wasted some time with it. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB -- To UNSU

ISO9660/HFS hybrid powerpc testers needed

2012-06-22 Thread George Danchev
Hi, We would like to test the new functionality of xorriso, that is ISO9660/HFS hybrid images, therefore we would need some testers who are willing to build and try to boot images on powerpc machines, at least those supported by Debian. This might also include downloading some large files

Re: Dd xcf to hfs bootblock or not?

2010-10-13 Thread nello martuscielli
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Super Bisquit wrote: > boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd > but why should I? > > Or do I place the file somewhere else? > > The OpenBSD partition resides on hdb6. I created an hfs bootblock on hdb5. > > > maybe... you'll have more info

Dd xcf to hfs bootblock or not?

2010-10-12 Thread Super Bisquit
boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd but why should I? Or do I place the file somewhere else? The OpenBSD partition resides on hdb6. I created an hfs bootblock on hdb5.

Bug#557892: RFH: hfsprogs -- mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems

2009-11-24 Thread Rogério Brito
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I would kindly request assistance with maintaining the hfsprogs package, which is a pair of programs for mkfs and fsck for HFS/HFS+ filesystems. The package is developed by Apple, but only a small fraction of the package is actually used. The current packages in

Re: Regarding GRUB 2 (was: Re: Bug#516458: HFS module fails to read some files)

2009-09-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 13:59 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Feb 21 2009, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > The HFS filesystem module fails to read some files, in particular files with > > an underscore in the filename. This makes GRUB2 unable to load _linux.mod > > from an H

Regarding GRUB 2 (was: Re: Bug#516458: HFS module fails to read some files)

2009-09-03 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Michel. I'm just catching up with some old e-mails, and I found this one. On Feb 21 2009, Michel Dänzer wrote: > The HFS filesystem module fails to read some files, in particular files with > an underscore in the filename. This makes GRUB2 unable to load _linux.mod > from an

Bug#516458: HFS module fails to read some files

2009-02-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Package: grub-ieee1275 Version: 1.96+20081201-1 Severity: important Tags: patch -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The HFS filesystem module fails to read some files, in particular files with an underscore in the filename. This makes GRUB2 unable to load _linux.mod from an HFS

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2008-01-07 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 12 2007, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > and if someone raises their voices we can think of offering the > package through backports.org. Thanks for the words as usual, Rhonda. The package builds well in an older chroot and, thus, I believe that it can be backported without any problems. Tschüss

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2008-01-07 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi. On Dec 11 2007, Ruben Vandeginste wrote: > And, regarding the other mails, I did switch off journaling for my > shared HFS+ partition (on purpose to be able to use it on the linux > side). Yes, otherwise, you can't write to the filesystem (unless you force it, which should not

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2007-12-20 Thread Ennio-Sr
and you cannot, for example, use that utility > to mount a volume in Konqueror or Gnome. > Nope! I tried all of them, excep hfsprogs (it's in 'unstable') and seems to be having some problems (see older posts). What seems strange to me is that checking the hfs partition

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2007-12-13 Thread Tommy Trussell
> > Ennio-Sr wrote: > > > > > > > > > > fsck.hfs is included in the "hfsprogs" package, but I don't have any > > > experience with it. > > > > > > Ruben > > > > > > > hmm ... I only succeded

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2007-12-11 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-12 00:34:09 CET]: > * Ruben Vandeginste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < > > [2007-12-11]: > > fsck.hfs is included in the "hfsprogs" package, but I don't have any > > experience with it. > > hmm ... I

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2007-12-11 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
s" package, but I don't have any > > experience with it. > > > > Ruben > > > > hmm ... I only succeded in getting 'hfsutils' which does check hfs > directories, but doesn't unlock them! > I couldn't fine 'hfsprogs' (debia

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2007-12-11 Thread Ennio-Sr
.. I only succeded in getting 'hfsutils' which does check hfs directories, but doesn't unlock them! I couldn't fine 'hfsprogs' (debian ppc) pckg. Anyway I moved a few files to the hfs exchange partition the longer way: uploaded them to my web private space ... Thanks

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2007-12-11 Thread Ruben Vandeginste
ing from linux i still get: > > "hfs: filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfs is > > BTW, 'fsck.hfs' is nowhere to be found (but I downloaded and ran > hfsplus). > > Perhaps the lock has anything to do with 'file sharing' on OS9? > &g

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2007-12-11 Thread Ennio-Sr
* Ruben Vandeginste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < > [2007-12-10]: > > At Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:49:49 +0100, Ennio-Sr wrote: > > > > [using 2.6.18-5-powerpc GNU/Linux on a iBool] > > [...] > > Since you have a hfs partition, I assume you have a dual-boot wi

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2007-12-11 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Ruben Vandeginste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-10 20:33:09 CET]: > At Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:49:49 +0100, Ennio-Sr wrote: > > > > [using 2.6.18-5-powerpc GNU/Linux on a iBool] > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to copy a file from ext2 to hfs

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2007-12-11 Thread neuroj THC
2.6.18-5-powerpc GNU/Linux on a iBool] Hi all, I'm trying to copy a file from ext2 to hfs partition, but the command: # mount -t hfs -o rw /dev/hda25 /mnt yields the warning: hfs: filesystem is marked locked, mounting read-only. Is there any way to unlock it? Thanks for your

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2007-12-11 Thread Zhengpeng Hou
wrote: > >>> > >>>> [using 2.6.18-5-powerpc GNU/Linux on a iBool] > >>>> > >>>> Hi all, > >>>> > >>>> I'm trying to copy a file from ext2 to hfs partition, but the command: > >>>> # mount -t hfs -o

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2007-12-11 Thread neuroj THC
'm trying to copy a file from ext2 to hfs partition, but the command: # mount -t hfs -o rw /dev/hda25 /mnt yields the warning: hfs: filesystem is marked locked, mounting read-only. Is there any way to unlock it? Thanks for your attention, Ennio Since you have a hfs partition, I

Re: How to unlock a hfs partition?

2007-12-10 Thread Zhengpeng Hou
> > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm trying to copy a file from ext2 to hfs partition, but the command: > > > # mount -t hfs -o rw /dev/hda25 /mnt > > > yields the warning: > > > hfs: filesystem is marked locked, mounting read-only.

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