On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:03:42AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Ethan Benson writes: > > > writing filesystem drivers is rather difficult, and generally not very > > fun from what i hear. of course it depends on the filesystem too, > > there are lots of people who seem to enjoy working on things like xfs > > and reiserfs... from everything ive read from people who worked on > > hfs+ its not a pleasant thing to deal with. > > > > its just hard to motivate oneself to work on a crappy filesystem that > > will never be used mainstream (unlike ext2, ext3, xfs etc). > > Oh come on. There is hope. Look at the Amiga filesystem, with the > insane hard linked directories. Linux supports that. Linux also > supports SGI Irix's obsolete EFS, IBM OS/2's HPFS, the QNX filesystem, > various disgusting SysV and SCO filesystems... There is even some > out-of-tree support for Commodore 64, VMS, Netware on-disk format, > and BeOS filesystems. Plain iso9660 is enough to make me feel sick, > and lest we not forget, "FAT32" which is really 28-bit with 4 bits > of uninitialized junk and the directory format from Hell. > > Tell how HFS+ isn't just a popular and beautiful design in comparison > to some of that trash. then why don't you just write a driver for it then, or shut up. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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