Re: Bug#433168: ITP: hfsprogs -- mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
>>>>> "Rogério" == Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> writes:
Rogério> As I see it, HFS+ seems to be a good compromise to carry
Rogério> files between MacOS X and Linux Machines (and Linux has
Rogério> already gotten hfsplus support in the kernel for a long
Rogério> time).
Unfortunately it doesn't have support for HFS+ filesystem journals. At
least it didn't last I researched the topic.
This means you have to switch off filesystem journalling in Mac OS X
to get it to work.
Which in turn means Linux won't mount the file system R/W if it is
marked as dirty.
Which in turn means you need to check the filesystem before you can
write to it again.
Rogério> I think that Debian users in general (since Macs have
Rogério> gone ix86-64 and have also been available under PowerPC
Rogério> for ages) would benefit greatly from a filesystem that is
Rogério> not as limited as FAT32 as pointed out above.
I would really like to see this.
I very much dislike FAT32, and use HFS+ on my portable USB hard disk
for transferring large files between Linux and Mac OSX.
(now if only Windows supported HFS...)
--
Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net>
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