Does anyone still need to create legacy HFS filesystems?

[Chris Murphy]

On Feb 2, 2012, at 5:25 PM, David Lehman wrote:
> 
> 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.


PPC Macs could only boot using HFS+ since Mac OS X 10.0 shipped in 2001 because HFS did not support file system permissions, etc. PPC Macs could boot from either HFS or HFS+ with previous versions of Mac OS.

680x0 CPU Macs could only boot using HFS.


Chris Murphy