From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 24 14:50:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA05284 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:50:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA05274 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:50:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA10108; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:50:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:50:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: TheLab cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hayseed@nmarcom.com Subject: Re: Apple File System Support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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