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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:21:32 +0100
From:      Christoph Sold <cs@cheasy.de>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>, ppc@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HFS/HFS Plus driver and tools for 5.x are available
Message-ID:  <3E7ECE1C.2000605@cheasy.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030323213148.1990A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030323213148.1990A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm glad to offer to the community an HFS and HFS Plus filesystem module
>>and tools, ported from Darwin to FreeBSD 5.  Of course, it's a rather
>>early version that deserves thorough testing. 
>>
>>Please see http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ for details. 
>>
>>I'm looking forward for your feedback. 
> 
> 
> Very, very cool.  I hope to try this sometime in the next couple of days. 
> So correct me if I'm wrong, but assuming journalling is working properly
> in your port, this is the first complete open source journalled file
> system available for FreeBSD.  :-)

Neither HFS nor HFS+ are journaled file systems. Have a look at
    http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Files/Files-99.html
or
    http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html
to read through the specs. (URLs shamelessly grabbed from the page 
mentioned above :*)

HTH
-Christoph Sold


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