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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:13:19 +0400
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Early version of HFS/HFS+ driver port to FreeBSD 4
Message-ID:  <20020416171318.A47529@comp.chem.msu.su>

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Hi there,

If anyone is interested in testing a very early version of
the HFS/HFS+ driver port from Darwin to FreeBSD, please see

http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/

I'd also like to discuss a couple of questions regarding the port's
future.

First, the code comes from Apple and is covered by the Apple Public
Source License, which is rather similar to the GNU one: One must
provide the source of any related work for free.  It also reserves
Apple's right to use any improvements in their commercial products.
Does that impose any problems or complications on putting the HFS
code into the FreeBSD source tree?

Second, the upper layer of the original Apple's code (VFS and vnode
operations etc) looks pretty outdated and sometimes poorly written.
Which way looks more reasonable, to rewrite it with respect to the
modern state of affairs in FreeBSD or to let Apple improve the code
over time?

-- 
Yar

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