Re: 2.3.99-pre6 sound hfs

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From my personal mail archive, I see that HFS was already broken in

2.3.18 last September.

And it got fixed enough to be working again at least in 2.3.48 - that fix
(or rather workaround) may have been broken again lately.

This is a little mysterious. It looks almost as if HFS is working for
some people and not for others.

So it seems. I've no idea why I wasn't bitten by this bug - I've used the
approx. 300 MB HFS exchange partition a lot to copy kernels to MacOS but I
probably never ever did things like create a folder there (all the kernels
pile up in the top level directory :-)

And another thing: I recall initially having trouble with the kernel
panicking when I unmounted the HFS filesystem. Not each time, but on
occasion. Went away as soon as I started to sync before unmount (but I
haven't really pushed it).

Around 2.3.45, there was a discussion with Ani Joshi who said that it
was working for him. For me it definitely wasn't. It hosed a ZIP disk so
thoroughly that MacOS died every time I just inserted it into the drive.
I had to reformat it first under Linux before MacOS would even touch it.

I'll do my best to hose a ZIP disk, thanks for the tip. The 2.3.45 or so
fix must be what I remember (I had had a look at the HFS code and decided
that a few functions needed a complete rewrite, but someone found some
easier way to deal with it, though I never quite understood how that
worked).

More recently (already in the 2.3.99's), Tom Rini claimed that HFS was
working for him. And it seems that even now it works for some people.
Weird.

I'll give 2.3.99 a spin.

	Michael


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