From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 23 09:39:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA22866 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 09:39:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mit.nmarcom.com (thelab@host-062.nmarcom.com [207.181.124.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA22861 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 09:39:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thelab@mit.nmarcom.com) Received: from localhost (thelab@localhost) by mit.nmarcom.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA01967; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:36:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:36:07 -0500 (EST) From: TheLab To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: hayseed@nmarcom.com Subject: Apple File System Support 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 Hello! I was wondering if there are any plans to incorporate full Apple File System Support in FreeBSD... 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... It's inconvienient, ya know? If FreeBSD does not have any plans, then are there any other non-commercial i386 UNIX's that do? I can just install one of those on an alternative machine and NFS mount back to the main server if i have to. :) Regards, Mit Another other suggestions welcome, but no, mactools/hfstools are not what i want as i want to actually _mount_ the drive, and with r/w access if possible.