Re: accessing hfs journeling in 2.6.16.14 fixed?

[Adam D <emlists@gmail.com>]

ruben wrote:
> At Tue, 09 May 2006 14:26:04 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 05:18 -0700, Adam D wrote:
>>
>>> I can mount HFSplus however...
>>> # mount -t hfsplus /dev/hda5 /mnt/x
>>> # touch test
>>> touch: cannot touch `test': Read-only file system
>> If you'd bother to check the kernel messages you'd see. And earlier
>> kernels didn't really support it, they just did it anyway.
> 
> Ah... this confirms what I thought, nl., that only read-write to
> non-journalled HFS+ is supported/safe/whatever.  That's why I just use
> a HFS+ partition without journalling.
> 
> It can still, however, be mounted read-write, while not allowing
> writes and then you get a similar message.  That happens when the file
> system was not cleanly unmounted and needs to be checked.  That can be
> done by simply booting into OSX, which will run a file system check
> during bootup.
> 
> ruben
> 


Ahhh.. that does explain a lot actually.  Thanks...