On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 00:15 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
There's various issues with the hfsplus utilities we ship at the
moment,
including the fact that fsck.hfsplus crashes on 64-bit. I'd like to
update this to the latest upstream, but code to generate legacy HFS (ie,
pre-HFS+) filesystems has been dropped.
HFS+ was introduced in MacOS 8.1 in 1998, and support for writing or
creating HFS was removed in 10.6 in 2009. I can't think of any reason
why anyone would really need the ability to create HFS these days, but
wanted to get some feedback from others before dropping it. Does anyone
object?
My understanding is that the so-called "Apple Bootstrap" filesystem
required for ppc Macs to boot is HFS. That's what anaconda uses for it.
If we could be using HFS+ instead, fine.
Dave
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