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From: Steve M Byan <smb@world.std.com>
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Cc: <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Filesystem books?
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Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>    Any takers on references for the Mac's HFS+ system? :-)  The "forked"
> file system which tracks metadata about a file in the "resource" fork
separately
> from the "raw" data in the data fork is similar to our design in some
ways.

An overview of HFS+ can be obtained at
<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Files/Files-99.html#HEADING99-0>
and the detailed specification for the on-disk format is at
<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html>

Regards,
-Steve Byan <smb@world.std.com>




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