Re: Problems with hfsprogs on G5 Power Macs

[Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>]

On 1/17/19 01:11, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> On 1/17/19 00:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On 1/17/19 12:35 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> > > On 1/7/19 08:23, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > > > Submit this email as bug against hfsprogs. It seems the bug can easily
> > > > be tracked even from a non-corrupted partition (disk?). Thanks
> > >
> > > This is now filed as bug [#919532].
> >
> > I don't think you will have much luck getting any feedback there.
> > Such bugs are upstream bugs and should be reported upstream.
> >
> > FWIW, you can just try a newer version of the source. The current version
> > in Debian is pretty old:
> >
> > > https://opensource.apple.com/source/diskdev_cmds/
> >
> > Debian has 332.25 while upstream is already at 593. If the latest
> > upstream
> > version doesn't support PowerPC anymore, try anything between 332.25 and
> > 593.
>
> Following bug [#765104] this seems to be a lost cause, because HFS rw
> support seems to have been removed from these Apple tools when Mac OS X
> 10.6 came out (see [1]).

On second thought, maybe this doesn't affect the operation of the
`fsck.hfs` tool.