Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:50:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: TheLab <thelab@mit.nmarcom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hayseed@nmarcom.com Subject: Re: Apple File System Support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971224144748.10003M-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971223122403.1086A-100000@mit.nmarcom.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, TheLab wrote: > I was wondering if there are any plans to incorporate full Apple File > System Support in FreeBSD... I haven't heard of any efforts to bring HFS support into the main kernel, no. I don't even know if anyone is working on a driver for the thing period. Unless you're volunteering :-) > I have a wonderful network running here with a UNIX File Server > with NETATALK & Samba, supporting a large network of NT, Apple, and UNIX > workstations and servers, but i have a slight frustration: > > Our graphic design workshop ships JAZZ, ZIP and Syquest drives back and > forth to an external Print House, as well as to our clients. This is all > fine and dandy except that i only have one drive of each, and they all > hang off the FreeBSD box. If we get PC files, no problem... i wrote a > script that allows our Mac-addicted Designers to mount the drive, and then > access it though their Mac's 'Chooser' (gotta love netatalk!!). However, > if we receive or have to send a drive in Apple's file system, i have to > halt the server, yank the cables, bring the server up again, carry the > drives over to my mac, do my business, then carry the drives back to the > server, bring it down, hook it up again, bring the server up... Macs can access DOS disks with the ``PC Compatibility'' control panel, which is available from any Mac made in the last few years. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.971224144748.10003M-100000>