Bill Studenmund & I actually had Peter Dinda's macfs integrated with the
NetBSD kernel at one time.  When we ran into some unresolvable (by us,
due to our inexperience) locking problems, we dropped the project.

BTW, at the time, Mr. Dinda had some licensing terms (restricting the
use of the software to non-military purposes) which were as unacceptable
to the NetBSD core team as are the GPL's terms.  


On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Gene Skonicki wrote:

> 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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