Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 7 May 2003 17:06:59 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Roman Zippel <> | | Subject | [ANNOUNCE] HFS+ driver |
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Hi,
I'm proud to announce a complete new version of the HFS+ fs driver. This work was made possible by Ardis Technologies (www.ardistech.com). It's based on the driver by Brad Boyer (http://sf.net/projects/linux-hfsplus).
The new driver now supports full read and write access. Perfomance has improved a lot, the btrees are kept in the page cache with a hash on top of this to speed up the access to the btree nodes. I also added support for hard links and the resource fork is accessible via <file>/rsrc.
This is a beta release. I tested this a lot, so I consider it quite safe to use, but I can't give any guarantees at this time of course. There is also still a bit to do (e.g. the block allocator needs a bit more work).
The driver can be downloaded from http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/ . The README describes how to build the driver.
If something should go wrong, I also have patch for Apple's diskdev_cmds (available from http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.2.5/), which ports newfs_hfs and fsck_hfs to Linux and fixes the endian problems. The patch is at http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/diskdev_cmds.diff.gz . After applying the patch the tools can be built with 'make -f Makefile.lnx'.
bye, Roman
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