Subject: Re: [OpenBSD-Mac68k] hfs vfs lkm? (HFS utils)
To: openbsd-mac68k@associate.com, David Leonard <david.leonard@csee.uq.edu.au>
From: Gene Skonicki <gene@cif.rochester.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/16/1998 01:21:47
Dave, I am.  I'm actually in email contact with Peter Dinda (author of macfs
which is an ALMOST free hfs read/write implementation).  The best approach I
have to build up a vfs lkm (I ahve some code that almost works here) and
supply an associated mount_hfs utility.  Catch me sometime and we can talk
about it in depth.  I'd love some help on this project.

Gene

David Leonard writes:
>
>So, has anyone made any headway into writing a vfs lkm for hfs yet?
>
>In my scrounging around so far I've thought about 3 approaches:
>	- put all of libhfs into the hfsfs vfs lkm
>	- split the hfs work into mount_hfsfs, much like the portal fs does
>	- hack away at libc's open() et al.
>
>I'm aware that there are licensing conditions which make putting a hfsfs
>into the kernel source tree, but a package should be okay. Hence the lkm
>business.
>
>Is anyone working on this?
>
>d
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