Does anyone still need to create legacy HFS filesystems?

Fri Feb 3 02:08:58 UTC 2012

El Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:45:38 -0800
John Reiser <jreiser at bitwagon.com> escribió:
> > Does anyone object [to dropping support for HFS]?
> 
> Plain HFS has no journal, so there are workloads where HFS is faster
> than HFS+ which has a journal.  Is it economical to cater to such
> cases? Probably not.  However, I do have a PowerPC Mac Mini that runs
> plain HFS and Fedora 10 with ext3.
> 

Linux doesnt support HFS+ rw, if the filesystem has journalling turned
on you can only mount it read only

kernel: [785311.970344] hfs: write access to a journaled filesystem is
not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only


Dennis