Re: Problems Mounting HFS on Mac & Linux

[rob <pfile@riverstonenet.com>]

Somewhat on topic:

yesterday i got a new hard disk, partitioned it exactly like my old one, 
and copied over the linux partitions using tar. one of the partitions on 
that disk was a macosHFS exchange partition, and i decided to use macos 
to copy the files over, mainly because i've observed the hfs support in 
the linux kernel to be a little buggy (sometimes hangs the machine).

so over in macos, i couldnt copy the files (i got a number of finder 
errors). using diskwarrior on the partition, it found probably 100 
inconsistencies in the directory structure. after writing out the fixed 
directory, i was able to copy it over.

i guess the moral of this story is that linux hfs support is apparently 
not 100% correct, and you should excersise caution when writing to hfs 
volumes from linux.

rob