[Ipodlinux-devel] Fw: HFS+ driver (from linux-hfsplus-devel mailing list)

[Roberto De I. <ro...@ro...>]

Hi all,
this could be very interesting for all mac-ipod users (as me).....




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Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:06:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roman Zippel <zi...@li...>
To: lin...@li...
Cc: lin...@vg..., <lin...@vg...>
Subject: [Linux-hfsplus-devel] [ANNOUNCE] HFS+ driver


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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