Does anyone still need to create legacy HFS filesystems?

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Feb 3 19:31:04 UTC 2012


On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 11:06:56AM -0800, John Reiser wrote:

> PowerPC Macintosh hardware will run for some more years.
> The monetary cost for a used machine (1GB RAM, >1GHz CPU)
> is nearly zero.  A "dead" Apple OS has the benefit of no new bugs.
> Preventing the install of Fedora on such a box (if creating a
> plain HFS is required for dual boot) seems to be a harsh penalty.

Since we've already established that mkofboot doesn't use the 
hfsplus-tools version of mkfs, that's not a concern.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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