On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Paul Goyette wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, John Valdes wrote:
> 
> > I recall from a year or two ago that someone was working on HFS
> > support for the kernel; anyone know the status of this?  Just
> > curious... :)  (hfsutils works quite well for my needs, but direct
> > mounting of HFS volumes would be neat.)
> 
> That would've been me and Bill Studenmund.  But we kinda sorta gave up
> on it.  we had it running in single-user mode, but could never get it to
> work in multi-user mode.  Then. other things came up to occupy us both
> (for Bill, I think it was his Doctoral thesis, for me, it was the
> SLOTMAN color-enabled kernel).

And the fact that the fs we were using was not available under a
NetBSD-compatable license, so it'd never make it in the tree. Though we
never asked the author if he'd release it under a different license. :-)

Take care,

Bill