HFS/HFS+ support in 5.4 Stable

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Sunday, 30. October 2005 11:14, edward wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to mount an iPod mini formatted in HFS+. I don't believe this
> file system is supported in 5.4 Stable, at least not on a standard
> kernel. I get :
> # ls /sbin/mount_*
> /sbin/mount_cd9660      /sbin/mount_msdosfs     /sbin/mount_std
> /sbin/mount_devfs       /sbin/mount_nfs         /sbin/mount_udf
> /sbin/mount_ext2fs      /sbin/mount_nfs4        /sbin/mount_umapfs
> /sbin/mount_fdescfs     /sbin/mount_ntfs        /sbin/mount_unionfs
> /sbin/mount_linprocfs   /sbin/mount_nullfs
> /sbin/mount_mfs         /sbin/mount_procfs
> The following page offers a HFS/HFS+ kernel module based on Darwin code.
> But it seems kind of out of date (2003) :
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/
> What would be the best way of building HFS/HFS+ support into my kernel ?

You will need to add

options         GEOM_APPLE

to your kernel configuration and use the filesystem driver from the URL you 
quoted. FreeBSD currently does not ship with hfs filesystem support.

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