HFS write support

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 23 08:41:08 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> On 06/23/2012 04:01 PM, JD wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
> > <mailto:Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 06/23/2012 02:40 PM, JD wrote:
> >     > Does anyone know if there are plans to provide HFS write support?
> >     > In which release?
> >     >
> >     >
> >
> >     Write support to HFS+ file systems is supported now.  The only
> caveat is that you
> >     must disabling journaling on the file system.
> >
> >
> > I suppose that hfsplus is hfs with journaling?
>
> That is just one of the differences.  There are others.  Two others are,
> HFS+
> supports longer file names as well as file names in Unicode.
> >
> > I see
> > /sbin/fsck.hfsplus
> > /sbin/mkfs.hfsplus
> >
> > If the answer to my question is positive,
> > then why provide the above 2 commands?
>
> ????
>
> fsck.hfsplus — HFS file system consistency check
> mkfs.hfsplus — construct a new HFS Plus file system
>
> commands have totally different purposes.
>

I was trying to find out if linux provided different versions
of these tools for the journaled and non journaled HFS.
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