Re: RFS: hfsprogs - mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Hi, Florent and Co.
On Jul 18 2007, Florent Rougon wrote:
> Warren Turkal <wt@atmos.colostate.edu> wrote:
>
> > Why does this matter? I don't see every other package specifically
> > mentioning who made it or what OS it was originally developed for.
>
> Of course it matters.
Indeed, it does. That's why I included the name "Apple" four times (at
least) in the long description of the package. I completely agree with
you here.
> I don't know whether there is an official (i.e., from Apple) public
> full specification for HFS+, but I suspect it is not the case.
Actually, as people have already pointed out, there is, actually, a
specification of HFS+ and I *think* that it was based on them that Roman
Zippel (I hope that I spelt his name correctly) wrote the hfsplus module
to the Linux kernel.
> Which means that Apple developers are obviously in a better position
> than most other people to write tools dealing with HFS+.
Indeed, they have employees that are paid for the job and they obviously
want to provide the best HFS+ support as possible, since it's their
primary filesystem.
Regards, Rogério Brito.
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