Bug#274408: kernel-source-2.6.8: HFS filesystem missing .finderinfo and .resource pseudo-directories
severity 274408 wishlist
tags 274408 upstream
thanks
> This feature is not there in 2.6. (Or else I need to RTFM -- can
> somebody point me to the right FM?)
Yes, it was removed when the filesystem was rewritten to not eat data
for breakfast.
> Thus, running a 2.6.8 kernel, mounting the boot.img file as an hfs
> filesystem makes it appear that the finder is zero length! In
> reality, only it's "data" fork (If that's the right word) is zero
> length -- all the good stuff is in the "resource" fork, which
> doesn't show up.
>
> This was an important and useful feature in the 2.4 "hfs" filesystem
> driver. Can it be reinstated?
talk to the upstream maintainer, Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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