Does anyone still need to create legacy HFS filesystems?

[David Lehman]

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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