From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 01:53:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ppc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB9E16A40F for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:53:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 974ED43CA4 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:53:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout01/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id kBJ1pu2B025463; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:51:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.24.92.150] (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id kBJ1poXC004582 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:51:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1938EB35-048F-461D-8176-80E2CF647C9B@uchicago.edu> References: <38D687BE-F674-4954-B6D3-8D25A8E9B9B5@mac.com> <1938EB35-048F-461D-8176-80E2CF647C9B@uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <302F3A97-5034-4CB9-9918-5C23A4346B4D@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Marcel Moolenaar Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:51:08 -0800 To: Nathan Whitehorn X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Cc: ppc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HFS+ X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:53:23 -0000 On Dec 18, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > There was a port of the Darwin HFS+ code to FreeBSD 5.3 (http:// > people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/). It worked quite well -- full read/ > write, etc. After 5.4, it stopped building. It is licensed under > the APSL, not the BSD one, but does integrate nicely into the > FreeBSD kernel. Thanks for the pointer! I've contacted Yar and may take over maintainership. If we can import this code in the FreeBSD tree, I will probably do that (after porting it to -CURRENT). It's a shame to leave usable code unused... -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com