Messages in this thread | | | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Subject | Re: HFSPLus driver for Linux 2.6. | Date | Fri, 06 Feb 2004 06:03:52 +0100 |
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Hi, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dylan Griffiths <dylang+kernel@thock.com> wrote: >> >> I don't remember where I grabbed this driver, I only know it's much >> more current than the one at >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus. > > Sorry, that's a showstopper. We need to understand who the maintenance > team is, and evaluate their preparedness to maintain this code long-term. > That probably was http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/. Their latest release is from mid-December.
> We don't want to be adding yet another rarely-used filesystem which has no > visible maintenance team. > The Mac-m68k and the Mac-PPC people would probably disagree about the "rarely-used" part. I do agree that adding a filesystem, no matter how widely used, without at least somebody to liaise between the kernel people and the authors is a bad idea.
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