Re: HFS+ format
flat view
From: Brad Midgley <hidden>
Date: 2000-01-30 15:25:58
i'll bet there is an implementation of hfs+ in the mach layer. mach needs to understand the filesystem well enough to load the server from it. i ported hfsutils (yes, the userland stuff) to the mach layer's bootstrap code back when the only way to install mklinux was with a macos util and a tarball. i'll bet mach has an hfs+ implementation (albeit read-only) in its bootstrap section in darwin. i realize you're right that the read/write implementation would be in the bsd layer as i think about it... the best route may be to enhance hfsutils for hfs+ support. you don't have to worry about the complexity of multiple readers/writers that way but you get a useful, practical result. then jump into writing the kernel code after it works satisfactorily. brad
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--- Brad Midgley <brad@turbolinux.com> wrote:quoted
dan,quoted
Is there any tool or technique to help port BSD source to Linux? Perhapsa are you sure darwin's hfs+ filesystem lies entirely in the bsd layer? (i haven't looked at darwin source)
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