Date: 04 Feb 2002 00:38:50 -0500 From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Bas v.d. Wiel" <bas@kompas-media.nl> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apple HFS filesystem mountable? Message-ID: <1012801131.35499.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <LOEJICFDGCPPJOMJCJKDEENJCGAA.bas@kompas-media.nl> References: <LOEJICFDGCPPJOMJCJKDEENJCGAA.bas@kompas-media.nl>
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On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 19:17, Bas v.d. Wiel wrote: > Hi all, > After experimenting with Netatalk/Samba as a server for a mixed environment > with NT and Mac clients I started wondering whether I could mount Mac HFS > volumes. It'd be nice to have this option for serving the occasional HFS-CD, > nothing mission-critical really. The ports collection doesn't give any > convincing HFS support, neither does a search on Google. It did turn out > that Linux supports HFS but I prefer BSD. There are two ports, /usr/ports/emulators/hfs, and /usr/ports/emulators/hfsutils that give you some degree of HFS compatibility. > Is there a 'mount' command that lets me hook HFS disks up to my unix > filesystem? If not, are there any plans to create such an option? Will we > see it anytime soon in -STABLE? I don't know much about Mac OS X, but I'd > guess it doesn't use traditional HFS so maybe my question is rapidly > becoming redundant.. Mac OS X uses HFS+, and I'm not sure if the HFS ports support this. OS X can also use good old UFS, but most people don't use that since it's not compatible with Classic. > If nothing works, I can still pump the CD's across the LAN to my Netatalk > test server which does an abolutely wonderful job, coexists nicely with > Samba 2.2.2 and is rock solid. I'm growing more and more fond of FreeBSD > every day!! The Netatalk project is always looking for ways to improve. It's good to hear you're having a positive experience. Joe > > Bas > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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