Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:05:04 +0300 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org> To: Christoph Sold <cs@cheasy.de> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, ppc@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HFS/HFS Plus driver and tools for 5.x are available Message-ID: <20030324120504.GC56331@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <3E7ECE1C.2000605@cheasy.de> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030323213148.1990A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <3E7ECE1C.2000605@cheasy.de>
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:21:32AM +0100, Christoph Sold wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > >On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > > > >>I'm glad to offer to the community an HFS and HFS Plus filesystem module > >>and tools, ported from Darwin to FreeBSD 5. Of course, it's a rather > >>early version that deserves thorough testing. > >> > >>Please see http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ for details. > >> > >>I'm looking forward for your feedback. > > > > > >Very, very cool. I hope to try this sometime in the next couple of days. > >So correct me if I'm wrong, but assuming journalling is working properly > >in your port, this is the first complete open source journalled file > >system available for FreeBSD. :-) > > Neither HFS nor HFS+ are journaled file systems. Have a look at > http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Files/Files-99.html > or > http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html > to read through the specs. (URLs shamelessly grabbed from the page > mentioned above :*) Christoph and Robert, I'm sorry to have to disappoint both of you ;-( Christoph: Apple has indeed introduced an extention to HFS Plus to make a journaled FS out of the latter. Robert: Unfortunately, the journaling feature seems tangled with the Darwin-specific unified buffer cache, and I haven't attepted to untangle it yet. However, that is on my to-do list. -- Yar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message
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