Re: Problems with hfsprogs on G5 Power Macs (ppc64)

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

Hi again,

On 01.11.20 20:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I just uploaded a new upstream release, version 540.1.
>
> Please check whether this version fixes the problem for you.

Looks like the new version indeed fixes the problem! Great! :-)

I was "lucky" and found my HFS partition "dirty" after over a year of
downtime. Here's a comparison between what happens with the old and the
new version:

```
## w/old version
######################################################################
root@powermac-g5:~# dpkg -l *hfs*
[...]
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-===========================================
ii  hfsprogs       332.25-11+b3 ppc64        mkfs and fsck for HFS and
HFS+ file systems

root@powermac-g5:~# fsck.hfs -q /dev/sda2
** /dev/sda2
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM DIRTY

root@powermac-g5:~# fsck.hfs -df /dev/sda2
** /dev/sda2
	Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=1024 cacheSize=32768K.
** Checking HFS volume.
Segmentation fault

## w/new version
######################################################################
root@powermac-g5:~# dpkg -l *hfs*
[...]
||/ Name           Version        Architecture Description
+++-==============-==============-============-===========================================
ii  hfsprogs       540.1.linux3-1 ppc64        mkfs and fsck for HFS and
HFS+ file systems

root@powermac-g5:~# fsck.hfs -q /dev/sda2
** /dev/sda2 (NO WRITE)
   Executing fsck_hfs (version 540.1-Linux).
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM DIRTY

root@powermac-g5:~# fsck.hfs -df /dev/sda2
** /dev/sda2
	Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=1024 cacheSize=32768K.
   Executing fsck_hfs (version 540.1-Linux).
** Checking HFS volume.
   The volume name is untitled
** Checking extents overflow file.
** Checking catalog file.
** Checking catalog hierarchy.
** Checking volume bitmap.
** Checking volume information.
** The volume untitled appears to be OK.

root@powermac-g5:~# fsck.hfs -q /dev/sda2
** /dev/sda2 (NO WRITE)
   Executing fsck_hfs (version 540.1-Linux).
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
```

Thanks and cheers,
Frank