Subject: Re: mounting HFS disks
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/06/1999 16:36:53
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> > 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. :-)

Hmm.  Has anyone taken a look at the Darwin HFS/HFS+ code?  It seems to me
that it wold probably be easier to port code from a BSD derived kernel,
plus the APSL is a bit less virulent than the GPL..

- alex