Subject: Re: HFSutils
To: None <thelarsons3@cox.net>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/26/2006 23:44:59
At 17:17 Uhr -0500 26.1.2006, <thelarsons3@cox.net> wrote:
>This is a handy package, if a bit cumbersome to use from the command line.
>Has there been any work to build this functionality into the kernel so
>that Mac-formatted partitions can be used to store and share data easily
>with MacOS?

There was a project that attempted to port an existing hfs driver to NetBSD
(Bill Studenmund was part of it, IIRC), but got stuck with locking problems.

The odd hfs code that you might find is usually GPL'ed and thus cannot go
into a BSD kernel.

	hauke


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